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ALUMNI  DAY 


COMMENCEMENT  DAY 


Saturday,  June  9 

8:30  a.m.  Class  Secretaries  Breakfast 

9:30  a.m.  Campus  Bus  Tours 

12:00  noon  Annual  Alumni  Luncheon 

3:00  p.m.  Campus  Bus  Tours 

6:00  A).)n.  Annual  Commencement 

#^!  Supper  The  College  Green 

7:15  p.m.  Band  Concert   The  College  Green 

8:30  p.m.  Free  Movie Memorial  Auditorium 

8:30  p.m.  Official  Class  Reunion  Meetings  Center  Roo)iis 


Center  Cafeteria 
Leave  from  Center 

Center  Ballroom 
Leave  from  Center 


Sunday,  June  10 

10:30  a.m.     Baccalaureate  Services  Memorial  Auditorium 

2:00  p.m.     Commencement  Exercises  The  College  Green 

4:00  p.m.     President's  Reception  President's  Home 


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HIS   YEAR    there   are   some   fifteen   students   at   Ohio 

University  who  became  interested  in  the  school  through 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  B.  Wright  of  Cincinnati. 

But  even  that  record  is  not  unusual  for  the  Wrights, 
who  have  been  encoiu'aging  outstanding  high  school  students 
to  enroll  at  OU  ever  since  th-eir  own  graduations  in  the 
late  '30s.  Many  times  this  encouragement  has  meant  not 
only  taking  the  time  to  talk  with  high  school  students,  but 
also  driving  them  to  the  campus  for  weekend  visits. 

The  rewards  to  Ed  Wright,  '38,  and  Mrs.  ^Vright,  the 
former  Marian  Tis.sot,  '37,  are  satisfaction  in  performing 
a  service  for  Ohio  University,  and  in  watching  the  outstand- 
ing records  "their"  students  have  made. 

In  other  areas  of  alimini  affairs,  the  Wrights  have  been 
no  less  active.  A  vice  president  of  the  Alumni  Association 
from  1951  to  1953,  Mr.  Wright  has  also  served  as  president 
of  the  Cincinnati  Alumni  Chapter  and  the  Cincinnati  Bobcat 
Club.  During  the  sesquicentennial  of  Ohio  University,  he 
was  active  in  the  scholarship  fimd  drive  in  his  area. 

At  the  June  reunion  in  1954,  Mr.  Wright  was  awarded 
a  Certificate  of  Merit  for  outstanding  service  to  Ohio 
University. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wright  were  active  in  campus 
activities  at  OU,  where  they  met  as  undergraduates.  Ed  was 
president  of  the  jimior  class,  captain  of  the  varsity  swimming 
team,  varsity  football  manager,  and  a  member  of  the  fresh- 
man track  scjuad. 

In  addition  to  being  a  drum  majorette  for  the  Ohio 
University  Band,  Marian  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Women's  Council,  and  served  on  the  jimior  prom  and 
senior  ball  committees. 

Married  in  1937,  the  couple  mo\ed  to  Cleveland  the 


next  year,  where  Ed  joined  the  Equitable  Life  Assiuance 
Society  as  an  agent.  Three  years  later  he  became  associated 
with  the  Proctor  &  Gamble  Company  there. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wright  were  active  in  alumni  afTairs 
in  Cleveland,  and  their  efforts  in  telling  students  about 
Ohio  University  began  in  that  city. 

In  1944  Ed  went  into  the  Navy,  where  he  saw  action 
as  an  officer  in  the  Pacific  and  Asiatic  Theaters  of  operation. 
Returning  to  civilian  life  in  1946,  he  rejoined  Proctor  & 
Gamble  in  Cleveland. 

In  1947  he  was  transferred  to  the  cotiipany's  general 
offices  in  Cincinnati.  After  two  supervisory  positions,  he  was 
put  in  charge  of  the  Advertising  Accounting  Section  of  the 
General  Accounting  Department.  In  this  ]Dosition  he  is  one 
of  the  men  engaged  in  accounting  for  the  world's  largest 
budget  for  advertising  and  sales  promotion. 

A  little  more  than  a  year  ago  the  Wrights  moved  into 
a  new  home  in  Mt.  Washington,  a  Cincinnati  suburb.  Mrs. 
Wright  teaches  physical  education  at  Anderson  High  School 
there,  and  Mr.  Wright  was  re-elected  last  fall  to  a  second 
term  on  the  .school  board. 

Of  last  year's  65  graduates  from  Anderson  High  .School, 
eight  have  enrolled  at  Ohio  University.  Edward  Wright, 
Jr.,  a  senior  at  the  high  school  this  year,  plans  to  come  to 
OU  this  fall. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wright  also  have  a  daughter,  Marjorie, 
w  ho  is  in  the  eighth  grade. 

Wherever  they  have  been,  Ed  and  Marian  Wright  have 
maintained  an  interest  in  Ohio  University  that  is  manifested 
in  many  services  to  the  University  and  the  Alumni 
Association. 


May,     19  5  6 


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THE 

Volume   35 

No 

.  8 

OHIO 

May, 

1956 

A     I.     U      M      N      U       S 

The  Magazine  of  the  Oh 

io  Universify 

Alumni 

Association 

Editor 

David 

N.   Keller,   '50 

Assistant  Editor 

Publisher 

Edward  E.  Rhine,  '55 

Martin 

L.  Hecht, 

'46 

the 


CONTENTS 


5 

On   the   Green 

6 

Dormitory   In   Memoriam 

8 

Names   From    Every  War 

9 

Birth   of   a   Concert 

12 

What  is  Science? 

14 

A  Bus  for  the  Job 

16 

Alumni   Club   News 

17 

Shawnee's   Exchange  Teacher 

19 

Financing  Through  the   Fund 

21 

Home   Life  of  a   Superintendent 

22 

Bobcat   Roundup 

24 

The    Faculty 

25 

Among   the   Alumni 

THE    COVER 

Track  Coach  Jim  Johnson  clocks  two 
of  the  best  distance  runners  he  has  had 
in  his  nine  years  at  Ohio  University. 
Bob  Sawyers  (left),  a  junior  from 
Cleveland,  already  holds  the  \arsity 
record  for  the  880-yard  run,  and  Frank 
Nixon  (right),  Lakewood  junior,  is 
consistently  just  a  second  or  two  away 
from  the  OU  mile  record   (page  22). 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  OHIO   UNIVERSITY  ALUMNI   .'\SSOCI.'\TION 

(Member  of  the  American  Alumni  Council) 

Russell    P.    Herroltl,    "16,   President 

Gail  Fishel  Kutz,  '21,   V.  Pres.  C.    Paul   Stocker,  '26,   V.   Pres. 

Martin  L.  Hecht,  '46,  Secretary  William  H.  Fenzel,  '18,  Treas. 


Paul  E.  Belcher,  '22 
Dwi^ht  A.  Fawcett,  '13 
R.ilf  C.  Kin  her,  '29 
John  VV.  Morgan,  '34 
Maik-tte  C.  Covert.  '29 


Board  of  Directors 

Dr.  Stanley  Dougan,  '14  Grosvenor  S.  McKee,  '16 

Laurence  D.  Keller.  '22  Homer  H.  Marshman.  '20 

Francis  M.  Rhoten,  '28  .Mfred  T.  Craft,  '35 

Peter  Francis  Good,  '26  Dr.  Rush  Elliott.  '24 

Edwin  L.  Kennedy,  '27  George  M.  Brown,  '31 


THE  OHIO  ALUMNUS  is  published  monthly  from  October  to  June,  in- 
clusive, by  The  Ohio  Unix'ersitv  .Mumni  .Association.  THE  .ANNU.AL  SUB- 
SCRIPTION R.ATE  of  $3.50  includes  membership  in  The  Ohio  University 
Alumni  .Association.  Remittance  should  be  made  by  check  or  money  order 
payable  to  The  Ohio  University  Alumni  .Association,  PO  Box  285,  .Athens. 
Entered  as  second  class  matter,  October  3,  1923,  at  the  post  office  at  Athens, 
Ohio,  under  the  .Act  of  March  3,  1879.  Printed  at  The  Lawhead  Press,  Inc., 
Athens,   Ohio. 

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SEVEN  ALUMNAE  who  graduated  as  physical 
education  majors  in  1931  have  made  plans  to 
get  together  for  the  first  tiine  in  25  years  at  the 
alumni  reunion  June  8-10. 

To  take  part  in  the  toj)  alumni  event  of  the 
year,  the  former  coeds  will  be  traveling  from  six 
different  states  representing  the  breadth  of  the 
nation.  In  fact,  the  only  two  women  in  the  group 
who  li\e  in  the  same  state  are  from  California. 

Included  in  the  group  are  Mrs.  Charles 
Fulkerson  (Georgianna  Guthrie),  South  Gate, 
Calif.;  Mrs.  LeRoy  Elmburg,  San  Gabriel,  Calif.; 
Mrs.  A.  L.  Almas  (Bertha  M.  Kulberg),  Lynn, 
Mass.;  Mrs.  T.  H.  Madden  (Martha  Ransdell), 
Niles,  Ohio;  Mrs.  Ed.  H.  Keller  (Marion  Fluke), 
La  Grange,  III;  Mrs.  Alan  Blackburn  (Elizabeth 
Mclntyre),  Tucson,  Ariz.;  and  Mrs.  Paul  Deutsch- 
berger   (.Sophia   Elikan),  Detroit,   Mich. 

Arrangements  will  be  made  for  the  former 
classmates  to  stay  in  adjoining  rooms  of  an  OU 
dormitory  during  the  weekend.  .Similar  arrange- 
ments are  being  made  for  other  reunion  groups. 

Emphasis  in  the  June  issue  of  the  Alumnus 
magazine  will  be  on  events  of  Alumni  Day  and 
other  alumni  activities  such  as  the  various  spring 
chapter  meetings. 

In  order  to  include  photo  coverage  of  .'Mumni 
Day  and  Commencement,  the  issue  will  not  appear 
until  the  latter  part  of  June. 

If  you  have  not  yet  made  plans  to  participate 
in  any  of  the  reunion  or  club  activities,  why  not 
contact  the  alumni  ofifice  or  your  local  club 
president  for  details  of  coming  events. 

'  I  '■WO  OHIO  University  students  combined  tal- 
-L  ents  to  produce  this  month's  behind-the-scenes 
study  of  the  symphony  orchestra,  beginning  on 
page  nine. 

Finding  a  writer  to  collaborate  with  sopho- 
more ]3hotograpliy  student  Taber  Chadwick 
pio\ed  to  be  no  problem  since  June  Roseberry,  an 
outstanding  journalism  senior,  also  happens  to 
be  a  member  of  the  orchestra. 

Coincidentally,  both  students  are  from  the 
state  of  New  Jersey.  Miss  Roseberry's  home  is  in 
Bevidere,   and   Mr.   Chadwick   is  from   Plainfield. 

The  young  authoress,  who  is  president  ot 
Theta  Sigma  Phi.  girls"  journalistic  honor  society, 
is  the  cellist  shown  in  the  foreground  of  a  photo- 
graph on  page  10. 

ABOUT  A  YEAR  AGO  I  got  the  idea  of  at- 
tempting a  humorous  article  about  alumni 
whose  names  are  closely  identified  with  their 
occupations.  Keeping  the  idea  in  mind,  I've  been 
watching  all  year  for  names  that  would  be 
appropriate   for   such   an   article. 

Unfortunately  —  or  perhaps  fortunately  for 
readers  —  the  idea  seems  doomed  for  lack  of 
material.  For  after  lo  these  many  months,  only  one 
name  appears  on  the  list  —  Larry  Press,  '49, 
Bakersfield,  California,  newspaperman. 

The    Ohio    Alumnus 


Honor  Society  Installed 

Phi  Kappa  Phi,  a  national  honor 
society  embracing  all  fields  of  knowl- 
edge, became  a  fonnal  organization  on 
the  campus  at  installation  ceremonies 
April  6. 

The  Ohio  University  chapter  be- 
comes the  74th  in  the  nation  since  the 
founding  of  the  first  group  in  1900. 

Twenty-four  members  of  the  faculty 
and  41  students  are  charter  members  of 
the  organization.  Officers  are  Dr.  James 
R.  Patrick,  president :  Dean  Rush  El- 
liott, vice  president;  Registrar  Robert 
E.  Mahn,  secretary-treasurer;  and  Pro- 
fessor L.  J.  Hortin,  journal  corres- 
pondent. 

Objectixc  of  the  honor  society  is  "to 
foster  at  Oiiio  University,  through 
recognition  of  scholarship,  character, 
and  promise  of  social  usefidiiess  in  stu- 
dents from  all  departments  of  instruc- 
tion, the  significant  purposes  for  which 
institutions  of  higher  education  have 
been  foimded." 

Students  from  any  of  the  schools  or 
colleges  of  the  university  are  eligible 
for  membership  pro\ided  they  are  with- 
in three  semesters  of  graduation  and 
rank  scholasticallv  in  the  top  eighth  of 
their  class. 

Dr.  Roy  S.  Swinton,  national  jjresi- 
dent  of  Phi  Kappa  Phi  and  professor 
of  engineering  at  the  University  of 
Michigan,  presided  at  the  installation. 
A  banquet  address  was  delivered  by  Dr. 
Archie  N.  Solberg,  secretary  of  the  so- 
ciety's northern  province  and  dean  of 
research  and  special  services  at  the 
Unixersity  of  Toledo. 

New  Fee  System 

A  simplified  fee  system — covering  all 
registration  fees  —  will  be  placed  into 
effect  at  Ohio  Uni\ersity  next  Sep- 
tember. 

To  be  known  as  the  comprehensi\e 
registration  fee,  it  will  amount  to  $110 
per  semester.  The  new  fee,  according 
to  Treasiuer  Paul  O'Brien,  will  include 
the  general  registration  fee  of  $75,  as 
well  as  student  activity,  student  sei-vice, 
such  as  health,  library  and  testing,  and 
all  laboratoiy  fees. 

In  the  past  each  of  the  latter  items 
was  assessed  separately.  The  new  sys- 
tem will  save  much  time  during  regis- 
tration periods  when  fees  were  norm- 
ally assessed.  Under  the  new  arrange- 
ment the  laboratory  fees  for  all  students 
have  been  averaged  and  included  in 
the  $110  figure. 

The  only  increase  in  the  new  figiue 
will  be  in  the  general  registration  figure 
which   advances   from   $67.50    to   $75. 


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OUTGOING  EDITOR  June  Noland  (right)  and  News  Editor  Maxine  Lowrv  interview  campus 
visitor  Sir  Douglas  Copelond  for  an  article  in  the  Ohio  University  Post.  The  two  editors  step 
down    in    June,    ending    a    two-year    coed    domination    of    the    newspaper's    top    editorial    positions. 


This  increase  is  in  keeping  with  a  imi- 
fonn  operational  increase  being  eflfected 
next  fall  by  all  fixe  state  uni\ersities. 

Torch  Sing 

The  annual  Torch  Sing,  staged  in 
Memorial  Auditorium  April  8,  was  won 
by  Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternity,  with 
Sigma  Chi  second  and  Sigma  Nu  third. 
Thirteen  groups  competed  for  the 
trophy. 

Each  of  the  groups  sang  "Keep  in 
the  Middle  of  the  Road,"  on  which 
judging  was  based,  and  a  second  song 
of  its  own  choice.  Judges  were  Dr.  Her- 
man Larson,  Denison  University,  and 
Dr.  Gerald  Lee  Hamilton,  Marietta 
College. 

Following  the  contest,  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa,  Torch  Sing  sponsor,  tapped 
nine  junior  and  senior  men  for  mem- 
bership in  the  honor  society. 

New  ODK  members  are  Ross  Paul- 
son, Edwardsbing,  Michigan;  Gordon 
Keller,  Cleveland ;  Don  Lewis,  Thomas- 
ville,  Georgia;  Don  Czech,  Lorain;  Joe 
DeCaminada,  Columbus;  Dudley  Kir- 
cher,  Dayton;  John  Dalton,  Cuyahoga 
Falls:  Don  Clark,  Athens;  and  Da\e 
Mocklar,  Parma. 

Post  Wins  Awards 

Ten  awards  were  won  by  the  Ohio 
University  Post  at  a  convention  of  the 
Ohio  College  Newspaper  Association  in 
mid-April.  Topping  all  other  student 
publications  in  the  number  of  prizes 
won,  the  Post  received  two  firsts,  one 
second,  three  thirds,  and  four  honorable 


mentions  among  Ohio  college  news- 
papers appearing  twice  a  week  or  more. 

The  first  place  awards  went  to  Copy 
Editor  Fred  Treesh  for  his  feature  story 
"LTnolTicial  Korean  Diplomat  Lauds 
.America,"  and  to  Photographer  Tom 
Atkins  for  a  basketball  picture  entitled 
"One,  Two,  Three,  Kick." 

In  capturing  third  place  in  the  over- 
all newspaper  contest  the  Post  placed 
behind  the  Miami  Student  and  the  B-G 
Neivs. 

Next  year's  Post  will  have  an  all- 
male  editorial  staff  for  the  first  time 
since  1952,  and  a  male  editor  for  the 
first  time  in  two  years. 

Named  to  succeed  Editor  June  No- 
land  and  News  Editor  Maxine  Lowry 
in  the  top  editorial  positions  are  Lariy 
Tavcar  and  Fred  Voder.  Other  appoint- 
ments for  next  year  include  Peter  Gear- 
hart,  business  manager;  Frank  Bowers, 
sports  editor;  Tom  Levy,  copy  edi- 
tor; Paul  Littlefield,  advertising  man- 
ager; and  Ernie  Villanueva,  circulation 
manager. 

Publicist  Visits  Campus 

Mrs.  Virginia  Hall  Trannett,  na- 
tional president  of  Theta  Sigma  Phi, 
professional  society  for  women  in  jour- 
nalism, \isited  the  Ohio  University 
campus  in  April. 

A  graduate  of  Ohio  State,  Mrs. 
Trannett  has  been  publicity  director  for 
the  Hartman  Theatre  in  Columbus  for 
several  years.  In  addition,  she  does  a 
half  hour  weekly  TV  show  on  station 
WBNS-TV  called  "Touring  the  Town" 
which  featiaes  clubs  and  civic  groups. 


May,     1956 


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DEAN  IRMA  E.  VOIGT  (1882-1953) 

A  woman  of  vision,  who  dared  wlwic  others 

hesitated:  a  woman  of  personal  integrity,  whose  example 

inspired  with  courage  those  with  less  personal  honesty: 

a  woman  ivho  eommanded  strong 

personal  affection  and  loyalty  in   those  with 

whom  she  labored:  a  woman  whose  personal  and  j>rofessional 

life  was  notable  in  her  untiring  effort  to 

further  the  best  interests  of  all  n'omen,  ei'erywhere. 

—OHIO  ASSOCIATION  OF  DEANS  OF  WOMEN 


Dormitory  In  Memoriam 


SHORTLY  BEFORE  her  death  in 
May  of  1953,  Dean  Imia  Voigt 
was  told  by  her  life-long  friend  Dr. 
Edith  Wray  that  Ohio  University  was 
planning  to  build  a  new  girls"  dormi- 
tory next  to  Howard  Hall. 

The  beloved  dean  of  women,  who 
was  in  the  hospital  at  the  time,  de- 
scribed the  news  as  "One  of  my  dreams 
come  true." 

Having  sen-ed  for  36  years  as  the 
University's  first  dean  of  women,  she 
could  not  help  express  the  wish  that 
the  building  could  be  named  for  her. 

The  incident  was  recounted  by  Doc- 
tor Wray  on  April  9  of  this  year  at 
the  ofFicial   dedication   of   Voigt   Hall. 


A  dream  had  indeed  come  true,  in 
the  form  of  the  beautiful  Southern 
Colonial  stvle  doniiitorv  which  houses 
200  girls. 

Completed  in  1954  and  named  in 
honor  of  the  late  dean,  Voigt  Hall 
was  dedicated  through  ceremonies  in 
Memorial  Auditorium,  followed  by  an 
open  house  in  the  dormitoiy. 

President  John  C.  Baker,  who  pre- 
sided at  the  dedication,  told  of  the 
influence  the  late  dean  had  been  on 
university  women  throughout  the  land. 

Another  of  Dean  Voigt's  clo.se 
friends  and  one  of  "her  girls,"  Glora 
Wysner,  "23,  gave  the  prayer  of  dedi- 
cation. Miss  W'vsner  is  secretar\'  of  the 


International    Missionary    C'ouncil     in 
New  York  City. 

The  Rev.  Harold  F.  Kellogg,  former 
Athens  Methodist  minister,  gave  the 
invocation,  and  Dorothy  Burns,  student 
president  of  the  Voigt  Hall  Coimcil, 
presented  a  talk  representing  the  dor- 
mitory's coeds. 

Main  Address 

Because  of  many  requests  for  copies 
of  the  main  address  by  Dr.  Wray, 
chaimian  of  the  OU  English  Depart- 
ment, the  Alumnus  presents  the  main 
portion   of  her   talk: 

"Today  we  are  dedicating  a  building 
which  for  many  years  to  come  will  be 
the  college  home  of  girls  who  attend 
Ohio  University.  The  name  of  this 
building  is  significant. 

Inna  Elizabeth  Voigt,  for  whom 
Voigt  Hall  is  named,  was  a  unique 
personality,  whose  life  was  dedicated 
to  help  young  women  during  their  col- 
lege years.  It  is  altogether  fitting  that 
we  pause  today  to  examine  the  facets  of 
her  character  and  to  understand  why 
her  name  will  live  on  so  long  as  there 
is  a  university  in  Athens. 

From  her  childhood  on  through  her 
college  career,  she  prepared  herself  for 
service.  At  first,  she  thought  in  terms 
of  becoming  a  medical  doctor.  In  the 
early  years  of  this  century,  however, 
a  woman  doctor  was  almost  an  oddity; 
consequently,  service  in  that  area  was 
])ractically  ])rohibited. 

Fortunateh'  at  the   time  she  entered 


SPEAKERS  ai  the  dedication  of  Voigt  Hall 
were  (I  to  r)  Gloria  Wysner,  '23.  and  Dr. 
Edith  Wray,  shown  with  present  Dean  of  Wo- 
men   Margaret    Deppen    at    reception    in    dorm. 


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The     Ohio    Alumnus 


college,  universities  throughout  the 
country  were  beginning  to  feel  a  need 
for  personal  guidance,  especially  among 
women  students.  The  first  Dean  of 
Women  in  the  United  States,  Marion 
Talbot,  came  to  the  University  of 
Chicago  in  the  first  decade  of  this 
century.  The  voung  Miss  Voigt  watch- 
ed this  new  dexelopment  and  saw  the 
possibilities  of  working  in  the  field 
which  wc  now  call  Human  Relations. 

After  she  finished  her  preparation 
with  a  doctorate  in  a  modern  language 
at  the  University  of  Illinois,  she  came 
to  Ohio  University  as  our  first  Dean 
of  Women  in  the  fall  of  1913.  During 
her  tenn  of  thirty-six  years  as  Dean 
of  Women,  she  created  her  pattern  for 
the  position  here.  The  results  of  her 
succe.ssfid  innovations  represent  her 
lasting  contribution  to  this  imiversity 
and  it  is  because  of  these  innovations 
that  we  honor  her  today. 

She  came  here  as  a  young  scholar 
fimily  con\"inced  that  "college  is  a 
place  of  the  mind."  Mental  stimidation 
is  of  first  importance,  and  learning  is 
lun!  How  many  times  I  have  heard 
her  say  just  that!  So  sure  she  was  that 
she  must  keep  her  own  sights  clear, 
she  continued  her  own  mental  growth 
by  attending  institutes,  travel  study 
groups,  and  a  summer  tenn  at  Oxford 
Unixersity.  England.  Hers  was  an  en- 
(|uiring  mind,  which  put  together 
pieces    of    ideas    into    a    new    synthesis. 

A   Mental   Impetus 

Through  her  own  enthusiasm  she 
conveyed  her  ideas  to  her  students, 
many  of  whom  went  on  to  important 
careers.  Their  letters  written  back  to 
her  during  her  last  years  as  Dean  of 
Women  attest  to  the  great  mental  im- 
petus she  gave  them. 

She  insisted  that  membership  in  all 
honor  groups  should  have  as  the  first 
requisite  high  scholarship.  Leadership 
must  be  based  on  substantial  mental 
attainment,  as  her  advice  concerning 
membership  in  Mortar  Board  and 
Kappa  Delta  Pi  attested. 

She  assumed  her  first  duties  not  as 
a  disciplinarian,  but  as  a  director  of 
student  thinking.  Her  aim  was  to  guide 
students  to  their  own  decisions  in  the 
conduct  of  domiitory  life  as  well  as 
gracious  lixing  in  all  their  contacts 
throughout   the   campus. 

The  gradual  working  out  of  this 
idea  led  to  the  initiation  of  student 
self  government  on  this  campus.  It  was 
the  result  of  her  wise  council  that 
Ohio  University  was  a  pioneer  in  the 
operation  of  student  self  government; 
many  cleans  came  to  her  to  learn  her 
theories,  which  were  gradually  adopted 
by  schools  all  over  the  country. 

It  was  not  only  stability  in  relations 
(Continued  on  page  26) 


Voigt  Hall  has  own  modern  library 


.  .  recreation  room 


and  lounge 


ABOVE  PHOTOGRAPHS  BY  GEORGE  P.    BIENSTADT 


M  .\  Y  ,     19  'J  6 


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^rom    C^ueru      l/Uc 


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ur 


A  new  roster  of  alumni,  faculty, 

and  trustees  includes  names 
from  each  of  the  nation's  major  wars. 

By  Richard  L.  Bitters,  '50 


THE  NAMES  of  nearly  11,000  vet- 
erans of  eight  wars  are  recorded 
on  an  honor  roll  which  has  been  placed 
in  the  University  Center  as  a  final  fea- 
ture of  Ohio  University's  now  two-year- 
old  sescjuicentennial  program. 

Presented  to  President  John  C.  Baker 
by  Clark  E.  Williams,  university  editor 
and  fonner  alumni  secretaiy,  the  elab- 
orate leather  loose-leaf  notebook  lists 
alphabetically  by  war  the  names  of 
those  students,  graduates  and  faculty 
who  have  been  members  of  the  \arious 
armed  services. 

Beginning  with  the  French  and  In- 
dian War  and  continuing  through  Dec. 
31,  1954  (the  end  of  the  150th  anni- 
versai-y  observance)  the  volume  con- 
tains 10,924  names.  The  honor  roll  has 
been  placed  pennanently  in  the  Mem- 
orial Room  of  the  Ohio  University 
Center.  The  Center  was  dedicated  on 
Feb.  18,  1954,  founder's  day  of  the 
sesquicentennial  year. 

By  virtue  of  its  now  152-year  exist- 
ence, and  its  role  as  the  first  institution 
of  higher  learning  in  the  Northwest 
Territory,  Ohio  University's  honor  roll 
reveals  names  of  personnel  who  have 
participated  in  each  of  the  nation's 
wars. 

The  roster  shows  that  even  before  the 
Republic  was  founded,  two  men,  one 
later  to  become  a  co-founder  of  the 
University  and  the  other  a  trustee,  took 
part  in  the  French  and  Indian  Wars  in 
1755  to  1763.  The  pair  was  Rufus  Put- 
nam and  Benjamin  Tupper,  respec- 
tively. 

In  the  Revolutionary  War,  1775  to 
1783,  Putnam  and  the  other  university 
co-founder,     Manasseh     Cutler,     both 


ser\ed  in  the  Anny  along  with  six  other 
men  who  became  university  trustees. 

Two  trustees  names  are  entered 
under  the  War  of  1812,  while  the  first 
graduate  to  serve  in  the  Army  was  John 
McDonald,  a  soldier  during  the  Black 
Hawk  Indian  War  of  1823. 

Moving  to  the  Civil  War,  when  Ohio 
University  was  57  years  old,  the  honor 
roll  lists  fixe  pages  ot  entries. 

The  first  Gold  Star  Roster  is  for 
World  War  I,  in  which  the  records 
reveal  eight  former  students  gave  their 
lives.  Some  800  names  are  entered  as 
having  been  in  service  during  World 
War  I. 

By  far  the  majority  of  names  are 
carried,  howe\er,  in  the  section  devoted 
to  both  World  War  II  and  the  Korean 
Conflict.     Nearly     10,000     names     arc 

VETERANS  HONOR  ROLL  book  is  viewed 
compiled    the    book;    President    Boker;    C. 
man;    and    (standing    I   to    r)    student   Charl 
president;    and    Eugene    Jennings.    Ohio    Un 


listed,  including  245  who  lost  their  lives. 
The  names  of  300  women  who  served 
in  World  War  II  are  carried. 

The  Gold  Star  roster  for  World  War 
II  is  preceded  by  a  copy  of  the  invo- 
cation delivered  by  Dr.  Horace  T. 
Houf,  former  chairman  of  the  depart- 
ment of  philosophy  at  a  memorial  ser- 
vice on  the  campus  on  Dec.  2,  1945.  Dr. 
Houf's  son  was  among  those  who  lost 
their  lives. 

The  honor  roll  includes  pages  for  ad- 
ditional names,  as  the  preface  acknowl- 
edges that  there  undoubtedly  would  be 
oversights  in  the  compilation  of  the 
records.  Persons  discovering  the  absence 
of  any  names  which  should  be  included 
on  the  rolls  are  urged  in  the  preface  to 
fonvard  them  to  the  Ohio  University 
Registrar's  Office. 

by  (seated  I  to  r)  Clark  Williams,  who 
Don  McVay,  Board  of  Trustees  chair- 
es  Russell,  of  Lancaster.  Veterans  Club 
iversity    coordinator    of   veterans    affairs. 


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birth 

of 

a 

concert 


EMPTY  STAGE,  save  for  choirs  and  music  stands,  begins  to  come 
alive  when  a  clarinetist,  oblivious  to  his  desolate  surroundings, 
fills    the     stage    with    music    as    he     practices    his    orchestral    part. 


Written  by  June  Roseberry 


Photographed  by  Taber  J.  Chadwick,  Jr. 


FROM  THE  time  the  selections 
are  chosen  for  an  OU  Symphony 
concert,  to  the  night  of  the  perform- 
ance, students  and  faculty  members 
of  the  orchestra  diligently  practice 
their  parts  on  and  off  the  Memorial 
Auditorium  stage,  striding  for  pre- 
cision and  artistic  interpretation. 

Music  is  like  an  inner  pulse  of 
creativity  for  the  60  members  of  the 
group,  some  studying  in  the  School 
of  Music,  some  enrolled  in  other  de- 
partments of  the  university,  all  con- 
ducted under  the  baton  of  Dr.  Karl 
Ahrendt,  director  of  the  School  of 
Music. 

Every  member  approaches  a  con- 
cert with  a  keen  appreciation  of  the 
music,  and  a  desire  to  recreate  pass- 
ages capable  of  sweeping  men's  souls 
with  the  impact  of  fine  music. 

The  following  pictures  demon- 
strate the  birth  of  a  concert  from 
the  moment  it  is  conceived  until  it 
breaks  forth  in  the  final,  unified 
voice  of  the  orchestra  on  the  evening 
of  the  performance. 


i 

THE    BEAT    must    be    strict,    asserts    the 
conductor    with    arm    ond    faciei    expres- 
sion,     OS      the      orchestra      sight      reads 
through     a     student-written    composition. 

9P  ■     _ 

^g\  0          ^Ml 

1 

AN   ERROR   in 
brief    time     out 
that    doesn't     b 

the   music   copy   calls   (or 

to     slash     quarter     note 

?long     in     that    measure. 

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"I  WONDER  .  .  .  could  be  I'm  tolcing 
this  movement  too  slow  for  an  allegro," 
ponders  Conductor  Karl  Ahrendt  as  he 
leads  the  Ohio  U.  symphony  orchestra 
through     a     number     for     the     first     time. 


FRENCH  HORNS  add  a  jubilant  tone  to  one  of 
the  dramatic  passages  in  Mendelssohn's  "Reforma- 
tion Symphony,  as  members  of  the  orchestra  gain 
confidence    with    increasing    familiarity    of    their    parts. 


FRENCH  HORN 
PLAYER  relaxes,  but 
isn't  day  -  dreaming 
OS  she  counts  fif- 
teen   measures'    rest. 


CLARINET  AND  BASSOONS  blend 
harmoniously  in  a  passage  from  Han- 
del's   "Prelude    and    Fugue    in    D    Minor." 


CELLISTS  take  advantage  of  the  solo 
parts  in  the  "Nutcracker  Suite  Ballet" 
to     bow     sustained     notes     with     feeling. 


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FLUTiSTS    dance    glibly    through    the    "Dance    of    the 
Reed     Flutes"    in    Tschailcowsky's    "Nutcracker    Suite." 


TWO  SEMI-PROFESSIONAL  members  of  the 
orchestra  exchange  last-minute  technique  sug- 
gestions   for    difficult    passag3S    of    violin     part. 


THE  CONCERT  is  finished  as  the  conductor  bows,  but  the  music  has  found  o  permanent 
place  in  the  hearts  of  the  orchestra  members  who,  after  long  hours  of  rehearsing,  feel  that 
they    have    brought    to    their    audience    a    fragment    of    the    greatness    of    classical    music. 


What 


IS 


Science 


By  Dr.  Jesse  H.  Day 


WHAT  IS  science?"  There  have 
been  a  great  many  interesting 
definitions,  but  in  sober  truth  there  is 
no  such  thing  as  science;  there  arc  only- 
people,  people  who  are  pleased  to 
disignate  their  part  time  activities  with 
the  word  science. 

I  put  the  matter  in  these  terms  be- 
cause it  has  come  to  seem  necessary. 
There  has  been  altogether  too  much 
loose  writing  and  speechifying  especially 
in  the  last  few  years,  about  what  science 
can  do  and  will  do,  how  science  will 
change  your  lives,  about  the  moral  re- 
sjjonsibility  of  science,  the  cold-blooded 
non-humanity  of  science,  that  science 
registers  yoia-  beer,  appro\es  yoin-  cigar- 
ette and  invents  your  toothpaste  and 
will  end  by  blowing  mankind  otT  the 
]3lanet. 

Science  is  not  an  entity  that  has  a 
coherent  existence  in  the  sense  that 
government  has.  Science  is  a  convenient 
name  to  describe  a  particular  kind  of 
activity;  an  activity  that  starts  with  an 
idea  and  leads  to  an  experiment  aimed 
at  verification  and  extension  of  that 
idea. 


Ultimate  Consequence 

If  there  is  any  moral  weight  to  be 
attached  to  the  ultimate  consequence 
of  an  experiment  it  seems  to  me  a 
begging  of  the  c|uestion  to  praise  or 
blame  science. 

Certainly  it  seems  sillv  to  attach 
praise  or  blame  to  the  tirst  man  who 
made  a  wheel,  for  all  the  people 
slaughtered  on  oiu'  highways. 

And  it  is  asking  the  impossible  to  re- 
quire that  each  experimenter  foresee 
the  endless  consequence  of  his  experi- 
ment. An  experiment  is  undertaken 
precisely  because  he  doe.^  not  know 
what  the  results  will  be. 

\Vhen  Mr.  Opjjenheimer.  said,  apro- 
pos of  the  atomic  bomb,  that  physicists 
have  tasted  of  original  sin,  this  other- 
wise brilliant  gentleman  made  a  remark 
with  unfortimate  implications  which 
are  simply  not  true. 

The  early  experiments  which  ulti- 
mately made  the  bomb  possible  were 
not  directed  at  making  anything  ex- 
jslode,  and  certainly  they  were  not  con- 
cei\ed  with  malignant  intent.  And  by 
the  time  it  could  be  seen  that  a  bomb 
could  be  made  from  these  residts,  the 
facts  were  known  lo  all  the  scientific 
world. 

Nuclear  Fission 

The  facts  of  nature  cannot  be  hid- 
den; they  recjuire  only  to  be  sought 
to  be  found.  Once  given  the  initial  ex- 
periments, any  competent  group  of 
technicians  and  engineers  could  create 
a  bomb — as  has  been  amply  demon- 
strated by  more  than  one  coimtry. 


As  a  matter  of  fact,  though  most  of 
the  publicity  about  nuclear  fission  has 
been  about  the  bomb ;  the  real  signifi- 
cance of  controlled  energy  release  from 
the  atom  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  is  pos- 
sible, with  further  development,  to 
pro\ide  us  with  the  energies  needed  for 
industry  and  for  heating,  to  preserve 
the  fossil  fuels  such  as  coal,  which  are 
finite  in  amount,  and  on  which  we  rely 
so  hea\ily  for  a  great  number  of  chemi- 
cals from  which  we  make  phaiina- 
ceuticals  and  other  products. 

Who)-  is  a   Scientist? 

What  is  a  scientist?  A  scientist  is  any 
person  who  conceives  and  carries  out 
an  experiment,  or  conceives  a  theory 
explaining  the  result  of  obser\ations. 

Since  this  more  or  less  includes  every- 
one, we  should  say  that  a  scientist  is 
particularly  a  person  who  spends  a 
large  portion  of  his  time  in  this  kind  of 
activity. 

W'e  won't  say  that  the  scientist  is  one 
who  pursues  tlie  scientific  method,  a- 
boiit  which  so  much  ink  has  been  spent. 
I  have  on  more  than  one  occasion  been 
quite  appalled  by  the  lengthy  and  intri- 
cate descriptions  of  the  "Scientific 
Method"  put  out  by  some  logicians. 

As  a  scientist  and  as  one  who  has 
li\rd  with  scientists  and  talked  with 
scientists,  I  have  never  heard  the 
scientific  method  even  ntentioned,  and 
certainly  I  know  no  one  who  deliber- 
ately e\er  sat  down  and  checked  ofT 
the  steps  one  by  one  to  guide  his  re- 
search behavior. 

The  scientific  method  is  of  course  a 
veiy  real  thing,  but  it  is  a  state  of  mind, 
an  attitude,  and  not  a  process;  it  is 
easily  summed  u]:)  by  the  phrase  "Tiy  it 
and  find  out." 

It  is  an  attitude  designed  to  distin- 
guish between  practical  common  sense 
and  unfounded  fantasy.  This  attitude 
necessarily  restricts  the  practice  of 
science  to  things  observable.  It  does  not 
prevent  scientists  from  specidation  or 
the  writings  of  philosophy,  or  e\en  irom 
]3oetry  or  music — as  my  flute  teacher 
will  attest. 

Why   is  a    Scientist? 

As  to  "^\'hy  is  a  scientist?",  I  must 
report  a  conversation  with  Mr.  Roberts 
of  the  art  department. 

He  was  telling  me  that  a  friend 
wanted  to  make  some  wood  cuts.  I 
asked  him  why  on  earth  anyone  would 
want  to  make  wood  cuts.  He  told  me 
"He  can't  help  it,  poor  fellow;  he's  an 
artist." 

If  there  is  one  thing  that  is  distinc- 
ti\e  of  mankind,  it  is  the  driving  need 
to  imderstand  and  interpret  what  he 
sees.  The  drive  is  uni\ersal,  and  we 
differ  only  on  our  modes  of  expression. 

The  relationship  between   the  scien- 


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tist  and  tiic  artist  is  a  parlicuiary  close 
one.  Each  is  dii\en  by  a  desire  to  know 
and  re-state  reality  as  intimately  and 
accurately  as  possible:  each  must  fol- 
low his  mind  onto  paths  ne\er  before 
trod;  and  each  must  have  the  sensiti\ity 
to  see  and  recognize  the  unknown  in 
the  fact  of  the  familiar. 

What  Science  does   not  Do 

Science  does  not  attempt  to  answer 
any  cjuestions  beginning  with  the  word 
"why?"  We  leave  such  questions  to 
bra\pr  men. 

It  is  easy  to  ask  c|uestions.  But  it  is 
\ery  difficidt  to  find  a  question  to 
which  an  answer  is  possible;  and  harder 
still  to  ask  the  ciuestion  in  such  a  way 
that  an  unequi\ocal  answer  will  be 
forthcoming. 

In  essence  what  the  scientist  tries 
to  do  in  performing  an  experiment,  is 
to  ask  a  question  of  the  form.  "If  thus 
and  such  is  the  present  state  of  affairs, 
what  will  be  the  state  of  affairs  at  some 
later  time?"  Thus  he  selects  a  particu- 
lar situation  and  describes  some  part  of 
the  final  situation. 

It  is  probably  a  mistake  for  a  ]3hy- 
sical  scientist  to  speak  of  cause  and 
effect.  There  is  an  infinitely  long  and 
stony  path  between  "cause"  and 
"efTect,"  and  the  reasoning  along  this 
path  is  ne\er  such  as  to  be  immedi- 
ately convincing  to  everyone. 

What  a  scientist  does  is  to  isolate  a 
chain  of  events,  so  that  he  can  say, 
"Look,  when  I  pull  on  this  link,  these 
others  follow  it."  We  might  label  the 
data  isolated  as  "necessarily  sequential 
events." 

No   Explanation 

Science  does  not  answer  questions 
that  ask  why ;  and  science  does  not  ever 
provide  an  explanation,  imless  we  ac- 
cept a  very  careful  definition  of  what 
an  explanation  is. 

If  you  were  ever  a  child,  you  will  re- 
member that  it  is  possible  to  ask 
"why?"  at  the  end  of  every  answer. 

For  us  an  explanation  of  an  event 
properly  consists  of  showing  how  that 
event  fits  into  a  particidar  framework 
of  ideas;  to  show  that  a  particular  thing 
is  consistent  with  an  established  notion 
or  body  of  thought. 

If  a  child  were  to  ask,  "Why  do 
things  fall  straight  down,  and  not  sort 


.  .  .  The  Author 

DR.  JESSE  H.  DAY,  an  associ- 
ate professor  of  chemistry, 
has  become  well  known  in  the 
field  of  science  for  his  research  on 
a  class  of  compounds  knozvn  as 
the  fulvencs,  and  for  editing  a 
national  magazine,  "The  Society 
of  Plastics  Engineers  Journal,"  for 
the  past  II  years.  Before  coming 
tu  Ohio  University  in  1948,  he 
taught  at  the  Case  Institute  of 
Technology  while  earning  his 
M.S.    and   Ph.D.    degrees. 


of  sideways  sometimes?"  we  are  apt  to 
mention  the  fact  of  gravity,  and  appeal 
to  his  experience  that  in  truth  things 
do  fall  straight  down  because  of  gravity. 

This  is  not  to  say  that  anyone  has 
the  foggiest  notion  of  what  gravity  is, 
how  it  arises,  or  why  it  works.  And  to 
imply  that  it  has  a  purpose  is  to  assume 
personal  omniscence. 

Therefore  we  nuist  be  carefid  not  to 
confuse  a  descri]3tion  of  the  universe 
with  the  imiversc  itself,  or  credit  the 
description  with  an  exjjlanation  of  any 
other  kind  that  a  fitting  into  of  already 
established  notions. 

All  human  thought  begins  with  at 
least  one  idea  intuitively  accepted;  and 
the  rest  either  follows  or  is  accepted  be- 
cause it  accords  with  this  original 
notion. 

It  took  the  genius  of  a  Descartes  to 
begin  with  "I  think,  therefore  I  exist" 
and  construct  a  whole  philosophy;  and 
this  is  the  only  possible  kind  of  path, 
and  we  all  follow  it,  though  our  start- 
ing points  are  usually  not  so  clearly 
defined. 

Einstein's  great  contribution  was  his 
observation  that  there  is  no  hitching 
point  in  the  universe;  no  point  which 
we  can  know  to  be  immovably  at  rest 
as  a  reference  point.  This  is  especially 
true  of  scientific  endeaxor.  Oiu"  "given" 
or  starting  point  is  simply  a  belief  that 
what  happens  in  one  set  of  conditions 


An  Ohio  University  scientist  answers  some 

searching  questions  concerning  the  consequences 
and  moral  obligations  of  scientific  experimentation. 


today  will  always  so  happen — an  un- 
provable and  possibly  incorrect  as- 
sumption. 

Very  important  to  any  discussion  of 
the  results  of  science  or  any  other  field 
is  the  apparently  imix'ersal  bias  that  we 
shall  direct  our  search  in  the  direction 
of  simplicity. 

This  is  to  say,  our  attitude  is  "take  it 
apart  and  see  what  makes  it  work," 
"divide  and  subdivide  until  you  find 
the  princii)les,  the  essences." 

This  attitude  has  at  least  been  the 
only  fruitful  one  we  have  devised;  but 
it  may  well  not  be  the  attitude  neces- 
sary for  comprehension.  Whether  this 
bias  toward  simplicity  is  a  built-in  trait 
of  mankind,  or  whether  it  is  only  a 
temper  of  thought,  it  has  been  exceed- 
ingly strong  throughout  recorded 
history. 

Simplicity  in   Science 

In  a  word,  man's  attempt  has  been 
to  find  the  minimum  number  of  general 
ideas  from  which  all  else  can  be  derived 
in  loco  parentis. 

Theology  has  reached  that  goal  with 
one  God.  And  in  science,  we  constantly 
use  Occam's  razor  to  split  our  experi- 
mental hairs;  that  is,  if  two  competitive 
ideas  have  apparently  equal  merit,  then 
the  simpler  one  is  taken  as  true;  or  if 
the  two  ideas  are  equally  simple,  then 
the  more  beautiful  one  is  taken  as  true. 

It  will  seem  strange  only  to  those  im- 
familiar  with  science  that  simplicity  and 
beauty  should  be  the  ultimate  scientific 
criteria  for  truth,  just  as  they  are  in  art. 

At  any  rate,  in  our  search  for  sim- 
plicity, the  universe  has  cooperated  very 
nicely  thus  far.  If  in  the  end,  nature 
proves  to  be  multitudinous  minded, 
then  it  may  be  that  idtimate  imder- 
standing  is  not  within  our  power. 


May,     1956 


Page  thirteen 


One   of  the   University's  seven   buses  makes  its  regular  stop  at  the   East  State   Street   housing    area. 

Field  trips,  band  tours,  athletic 

trips,  commuting  —  the  University  has  .  .  . 


■:'"';^i!;'j'  ':;'■ ".  'ituL.^' 


^^    (l5u6    for    the   /job 


BUS  STOP  at  University  Center  is  sometimes 
scene  of  a  pedestrian  traffic  iom,  as  riders 
try    to    catch    first    of    two    noon    stiuttle    buses. 


TF  YOU  ARE  one  of  approximately 
J-  1600  fomicr  students  who  have  lived 
in  East  State  Street  university  housing, 
the  scene  above  will  be  a  familiar  one. 
For  ten  years  the  "Green  Beetles"  have 
been  making  their  regular  two-mile 
rims  between  the  campus  and  the  bar- 
racks, trailer  park,  and  pre-fabs  which 
house  married  students  and  their 
families. 

But  this  free  shuttle  bus  service  is 
only  one  part  of  a  system  which  ac- 
coimts  for  some  90,000  miles  of  student 
transportation  cvciy  year. 

In  four  years  at  Ohio  University,  al- 
most evei-y  student  makes  some  use  of 
the  OU  bus  system.  If  you  have  ever 
played  on  a  varsity  ball  team,  taken 
pratice  teaching,  gone  on  a  field  trip, 
or  travelled  with  an  OU  musical  or- 
ganization, chances  are  you  have  ridden 
in  one  of  the  seven  university  buses. 

Perhaps  you  recall  being  stranded 
for  a  while  on  a  geology  field  trip  to 
Slaters  Gravel  Pit,  during  a  breakdown 
of  the  bus.   If  so,  you  are  in  the  min- 


ority. For  despite  the  average  bus  age 
of  13  years,  breakdowns  are  very  in- 
frequent. 

A  lot  of  good  natured  joking  is  aimed 
at  the  buses,  especially  since  five  of 
them  are  World  War  II  surplus.  But 
there  are  few  students  who  do  not 
appreciate  the  free  transportation  to 
their  apartments  or  the  schools  where 
they  do  their  practice  teaching. 

Oldest  of  the  buses  is  a  1940  GMC 
25-passenger  vehicle  which  is  almost  a 
landmark  at  the  corner  of  Court  and 
President  Streets  where  it  picks  up  stu- 
dent teachers  for  West  Side  School. 
Mechanicsburg,  and  The  Plains. 

There  is  some  debate  as  to  whether 
the  bus  speedometer  has  turned  over 
foiu-  or  five  times,  but  drivers  and 
mechanics  agree  that  it  has  gone  ap- 
]5roximately  a  half  million  miles.  .Still  in 
good  running  condition,  however,  it 
makes  short-run  tri]3s  totalling  18,000 
miles  each  year. 

For  longer  trips  the  old  bus  has  been 
replaced  by  a  29-passenger  coach  used 


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NEWEST    bus    is    29-possenger    coach    used    for    long 
trips,    usually    by    varsity   athletic   teams   or   the    Band. 


chiefly  by  athletic  teams  and  musical 
groups  on  tour.  These  trips  account  for 
nearly  30.000  miles  per  school  year. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  of  the 
vehicles  is  a  1942  Ford  known  as  the 
"alligator."  This  unusual  bus  was  made 
from  a  regular  sedan,  cut  in  the  middle, 
with  a  center  section  added.  Thus  con- 
verted (originally  for  the  Army),  it  can 
be  used  for  groups  of  10  students. 

Although  the  "alligator"  continues  to 
travel  approximately  1200  miles  each 
year,  it  has  been  largely  replaced  by  a 
new  station  wagon. 

The  two  1942  buses  which  make 
regular  trips  to  university  housing  units 
each  can7  41  passengers.  One  of  them, 
along  with  a  similar  38-passenger  bus 
and  a  24-passenger  bus,  is  also  taken  on 
various  field  trips. 

These  field  trips,  made  regidarly 
by  botany  and  geology  class  groups, 
often  call  for  rugged  driving.  The 
make-shift  roads  leading  into  Southern 
Ohio  strip  mines,  for  instance,  present 
a  real  challenge  to  bus  and  driver. 


Recalling  some  of  the  times  he  has 
been  temporarily  stuck  in  soft  ground, 
one  of  the  driver's  gave  a  new  touch  to 
an  old  cliche  by  asserting  that  his  truck 
has  been  "down  but  always  out." 

Credit  for  keeping  the  buses  in  good 
running  condition  goes  to  mechanics 
Wilbur  AN'illiams  and  Robert  Sidders, 
who  are  responsible  for  servicing  and 
repairing  44  university  vehicles.  Mr. 
Sidders  also  serves  as  a  driver,  along 
with  Jack  Quest,  Charles  McCallister, 
Cecil  Welsh,  and  Russell  Bashore. 

Close  checks  are  made  on  the  condi- 
tion of  buses  and  on  requirements  for 
each  out-of-town  trip.  Coordinator  for 
requests  from  different  university  de- 
partments and  scheduled  bus  runs  is 
Doris  Walden,  secretaiy  in  the  build- 
ings and  groimds  office. 

Whether  the  recjuest  is  for  a  weekend 
joiuney  to  St.  Louis  or  a  jaunt  down 
into  a  gravel  pit,  the  university's  private 
transportation  system  has  a  bus  for  the 
job. 


REPAIRS  are  made  at  the  university  airport 
garage.  Mechanics  Robert  Sidders  (pictured) 
and  Wilbur  Williams  are  responsible  for  the 
maintenance    ol    44    Ohio     University    vehicles. 


OLDEST   university    bus   has   troveled   some    hall-million 
miles,     but    it    is    still     in     good     operating     condition. 


May,     195  6 


Page  fifteen 


'^iittnni   (^tiib    i  it 


ewS 


Franklin  County  Women 

Tlu'  Ohio  Uni\ersity  Alumnae  Club 
of  Franklin  County  met  for  a  desert- 
fashion  show  at  the  Maramor  Restaur- 
ant in  Columbus  Saturday,  April  14. 
About  150  women  attended  the  affair. 

A  style  show  was  presented  by  Coles 
of  Columbus,  with  the  cooperation  of 
Correale's    Modeling    School. 

Following  the  fashion  show  the 
group  elected  Mrs.  A.  Richard  Ode- 
brecht  (Shirley  Keller,  '54)  president. 
Other  officers  chosen  for  the  coming 
year  were  Mrs.  Ralph  Welch  (Diana 
Galbreath,  '51),  vice  president;  Mary 
McNaghten,  '20,  secretary;  and  Mrs. 
George  Simons  (Elaine  Keller,  '50), 
treasiner. 

Alimini  Secretary  Martin  L.  Hecht 
brought  greetings  from  President  John 
C.  Baker. 

Mary  McNaghten^  '20 
Secretary 


Detroit 

Dr.  Fred  Picard,  chainnan  of  the 
Ohio  University  Department  of  Eco- 
nomics, and  Frank  Richey,  freshman 
football  and  baseball  coach,  were  fea- 
tined  speakers  at  an  April  7  meeting  of 
the  Detroit  Alumni  Chapter. 

Fifty-four  alumni  attended  the  din- 


ner meeting  at  Bagozzi's  Chop  House 
in  that  city. 

Dr.  Picard  spoke  on  academic  and 
])hysical  changes  at  the  University  and 
Coach  Richey  described  the  current 
athletic  program.  Marty  Hecht  also 
spoke  briefly  and  showed  color  slides 
of  campus  buildings. 

Chapter  President  Tom  Morgan,  "50, 
])resided  at  the  meeting  and  Bill  Yohe, 
"49,  vice  president,  ga\e  a  membership 
report.  Secretary  Dick  Ludwinski,  '48, 
introduced  speakers  and  Treasurer 
Marv  Rice,  "39,  presented  the  financial 
report.  The  invocation  was  offered  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Ralph  Parks,  archdeacon 
of   the   Episcopal   Dioceses   in   Detroit. 

During  the  business  meeting  which 
followed,  a  new  constitution  and  set 
of  bylaws  was  accepted  by  the  chapter. 

Youngstown  Mothers 

Appro.ximately  90  parents  of  OU 
students  and  alumni  attended  an  April 
1 7  dinner  of  the  Youngstown  Mothers 
Club.  Dr.  L.  C.  Staats,  professor  of 
dramatic  art  and  speech  and  director 
of  intercollegiate  forensics  at  Ohio 
University,  spoke  to  the  group,  which 
included  husbands  of  the  club  mem- 
bers. His  subject  was  the  advantages 
of  education  in  the  modern  day  world. 

Mrs.  Kenneth  M.  Carlyle,  president 
of   the   club,   presided   over   the    alTair 


HOSTESSES  who  helped  prepare  the  reunion  of  the  Southern  California  OU  Alumni  Chapter,  held 
in  Long  Beach  May  5  and  6,  are,  left  to  right:  Mrs.  Donald  Koran,  Mrs.  Edward  Koran  (Pauline 
McCoy,    '47),    and    Mrs.    Harold    Oder    (Elinor    Knabel,    '49),    shown    checltlng   the    registration    lists. 


held  in  Youngstown's  Colony  House. 
She  is  the  mother  of  student  Virginia 
Jean  Carlyle,  an  OU  jimior  majoring 
in  fine  arts. 

Program  chainnan  was  Mrs.  F.  L. 
Cockman,  whose  son  Fred  graduated 
in  1952  and  is  now  serving  as  a  first 
lieutenant    in    Limdsberg,    Gemiany. 


Cleveland  Women 

riie  Euclid  Section  of  the  Ohio 
University  Women"s  Club  of  Cleveland 
met  March  15  for  a  business  and  social 
meeting  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Joseph 
Moran  (Belva  Kuchenbacker,  "46). 
At  their  meeting  on  April  24,  they  took 
a  tour  of  Nela  Park  before  gathering 
at  the  home  of  Florence  Allen  for 
business  and   refreshments. 

The  Lakewood  Section  held  its  Feb- 
ruar\-  meeting  at  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Wesley  (Phyllis)  Dill,  '41,  and  mem- 
bers folded  500  cancer  bandages.  In 
March  they  attended  the  Lakewood 
Little  Theater  for  a  production  of 
"Solid  Gold  Cadilac,""  and  on  April  12 
they  toured  the  Glidden  Paint  Com- 
pany ]5lant. 

Members  of  the  Parma-Brooklyn 
Section  held  a  progressive  dinner  party 
on  March  29.  Hostesses  were  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Benson  (Eleanor  Stoup,  '27),  Mrs. 
Chester  Morgan  (Dorothy  Purviance, 
'44),  and  Mrs.  Robert  Trivison 
(Dorothy  Wood,  '51).  Stuffed  dolls 
made  by  the  group  were  brought  and 
sent  to  the  Crippled  Children's  Home. 

On  April  5,  the  Shaker  and  Heights 
Section  met  at  the  home  of  Mrs. 
William  Petrovic  (Peg  Redlin,  '49). 
Marjorie  Whittle  spoke  on  the  Cuya- 
hoga Juvenile  Coint. 

Southeast  Section  met  in  March  at 
the  home  of  Charlotte  and  Edna  Cope- 
land,  both  '14,  to  hear  Mrs.  Maiy 
Viglione  speak  on  interior  decorating. 
Husbands  were  guests  at  an  April  4 
meeting,  with  Charles  VoU  of  the 
Bureau  of  Narcotics  serving  as  principle 
speaker.  Mrs.  Kent  Chapman  (Effie 
CUmdoupolis,  '49)  was  hostess  for  the 
meeting. 

The  Westside  Suburban  Section  held 
its  March  meeting  at  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Lariy  Stewart  (Barbara  Metcalfe,  "49). 
Hunt  Gannel  of  Fries  and  Schuelc 
s]X)ke  on   interior  decoiating. 


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The    Ohio    Alumnus 


A  Hollywood  reception  awaited 

Shawnee^s  Exchange  Teacher 

and  her  honor  guard  of  three 


By  Ruth  H.  Wagner 


GILES,  ONE  of  Britain's  leading 
cartoonists,  has  recorded  the  ar- 
rival of  a  group  of  American  exchange 
teachers  in  a  sketch  of  a  little  boy  wist- 
fully viewing  an  Anglo-American  inter- 
change bus  and  saying  to  his  com- 
rades: "If  we  can  get  Marilyn  Monroe 
in  exchange  for  old  Stokey,  it  won't  be 
a  bad  deal." 

We  ventin-e  to  say,  however,  that  il 
Giles  had  caught  a  glimpse  either  of 
Mrs.  Ruth  McLean  of  vShawnee,  Kan- 
sas, or  her  "matched"  English  counter- 
part, Joyce  Pease  of  Plymouth,  Eng- 
land, the  cartoon  might  well  have  died 
on  the  drawing  board.  For  charming, 
vivacious  Joyce  Pease  was  a  far  cry 
from  Old  Stokey;  and  if  Ruth  McLean 
had  stepped  off  that  bus,  she  might 
easily  have  passed  for  Marilyn  Monroe. 

There  was  a  difference,  however.  For 
although,  upon  Ruth's  arrival  in  Ply- 
mouth she  did  indeed  achieve  some- 
thing of  the  status  of  a  motion  picture 
star,  to  be  perfectly  honest,  it  was  her 
honor  guard  of  three  jean-aged  chil- 
dren that  stole  the  show. 

And  thereby  hangs  an  interesting  tale. 
For  after  a  quick  glance  at  Mrs.  Mc- 
Lean, faculty  eyes  popped  at  the  sight 
of  three  healthy,  happy,  and  well-man- 
nered children  instead  of  the  Holly- 
wood-version teen-agers  they  had  con- 
jured up  in  their  minds.  As  the  Laira 
Green  School  headmaster  put  it:  "Why 
the  prospect  of  three  atom  bombs 
couldn't  have  caused  more  of  a  stir 
than  the  announcement  of  your  ap- 
pointment— especially  when  we  heard 
about  the  children.  After  wiiat  we'd 
heard  about  the  behavior  of  adolescents 
in  the  United  States,  well  .  .  ."  The 
schoolmaster  jaausecl  dramatically.  Mere 


RUTH     McLEAN     in     front     of     Queen     Victoria's     beautiful 
summer     fiome,     Osborne     House,     on     ttie     Isle     of     Wigfit. 


words  would  not  suffice. 

Now,  in  attempting  to  tell  Mrs.  Mc- 
Lean's story  we  may  run  out  of  words, 
too.  So  we'd  better  set  you  straight 
right  away,  as  Headmaster  Taylor  was 
pleased  to  do  within  a  few  months, 
about  the  three  atom  bombs  —  Sally, 
(then)  16,  Bob,  14,  and  Joan,  13.  They 
all  wound  up  the  year  with  academic 
standings  at  the  top  of  their  forms 
(grades)  in  their  respective  boys'  and 
girls'  schools;  with  behavior  records  as 
clean  as  a  whistle;  with  quite  a  few  mis- 
cellaneous honors ;  and  with  authentic 
BBC  accents  thrown  in  for  good  mea- 
sure. This,  we  believe,  along  with 
Ruth's  excellent  teaching  record,  some 
45   addresses,  and   hundreds  of  family 


JN  THE  FALL  of  1954,  Mrs. 
^  John  T.  McLean  (Ruth  Ann 
Irvin,  '34,  M.A.  '36)  received 
a  year's  leave  of  absence  from 
the  Shawnee-Mission  Elementary 
School  in  Kansas  City  to  accept 
an  exchange  teacher  scholarship 
in  England.  The  story  of  her  ex- 
periences, condensed  here  from 
an  article  in  "The  Kansas  Teach- 
er," provides  not  only  an  interest- 
ing personality  sketch  of  the  OU 
alumna,  but  a  perceptive  com- 
parison of  education  in  the  two 
countries. 

Mrs.  McLean,  whose  husband 
is  associated  with  the  Stalcup 
Sign  Company  in  Kansas  City, 
took  her  three  children  along  to 
England.  Miss  Wagner,  author  of 
the  article  about  the  McLeans,  is 
managing  editor  of  "The  Kansas 
Teacher"  matiazine. 


and  other  social  contacts — should  cer- 
tainly give  plenty  of  mo\ie  stars  a  run 
for  their  money. 

But  we  are  not  anxious  to  add 
glamor  to  this  story  where  there  was 
none.  Exchange  teaching  is  frequently 
oversold,  especially  by  those  who  have 
never  done  it.  The  reports  of  exchange 
teachers  often  show  that  the  teaching 
itself  is  actually  monotonous  and  car- 
ried out  in  drab  siu-roundings,  and  that 
in  winter  months,  in  England  particu- 
larly, one  is  more  often  cold  than  even 
bearably  warm.  Ruth's  experience  was 
no  exception,  but  luckily  she  also  dis- 
covered that  plus-quality  in  her  total 
experience  that  strikes  at  the  very  heart 
of  the  exchange  teaching  program  —  a 
quality  that  was  most  aptly  summar- 
ized by  a  community  leader  in  Ply- 
mouth who  wrote  to  her  a  few  weeks 
ago:  "You  and  your  family  have  given 
us  an  insight  into  America  that  is  far 
better  than  all  the  official  ambassadors 
and  motion  pictines  put  together." 

But  an  insight  into  America  and  be- 
ing a  good  exchange  teacher-plus 
doesn't  always  come  gift-wrapped  in 
the  same  package.  Indeed,  a  long 
look  at  Mrs.  McLean's  well-rounded 
life  and  career  would  lead  one  to  be- 
lieve that  exchange  teachers  are  har- 
vested only  after  a  long  growing  season. 
A  channing,  you"d-never-guess-it-42, 
Ruth  began  teaching  right  after  col- 
lege, married,  and  has  returned  to  the 
profession  as  a  career  teacher.  Now 
solidly  established  as  a  fifth  grade 
teacher,  she  has  come  full  circle  within 
the  profession,  having  taught  at  the 
college  and  high  school  levels,  had  her 
own  nurseiy  school,  and  having  inter- 
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May,     195  6 


Page  seventeen 


laced  all  of  these  with  the  teaching  of 
piano  and  swimming — along  with  play- 
ing a  little  championship  tennis. 

We  haven't  talked  to  Joyce  about  the 
highlights  of  her  stay  here,  but  Ruth 
smiles  grimlv  as  she  describes  her  year- 
long efforts — indeed,  the  single  day-in- 
and-out  goal  of  helping  her  students 
(the  slowest  fifth  graders  in  the  school  I 
pass  the  10-Plus  exam. 

Scholarship  Year 

Without  knowing  what  was  in  store 
for  her,  Ruth  walked  in  on  one  of  the 
toughest  assignments  imaginable — the 
so-called  "scholarship  year."  This  was 
the  crucial  year  when  success  or  failure 
in  one  exam  determined  whether  or  not 
the  10-year-olds  entered  Grammar 
School.  Ruth  does  not  hesitate  to  say 
that  she  had  ''100  per  cent  failure  so 
far  as  the  10-Plus  was  concerned"  but  is 
comforted  by  the  knowledge  that  no 
student  in  the  slowest  fifth  grade  at 
Laira  Green  had  e\er  passed  the  exam, 
so  carefully  o\er  the  preceding  years 
were  the  better  students  screened  off 
into  the  higher  ability  groupings.  She 
recalls  happily,  however,  that  in  the 
face  of  the  hopelessness  of  her  students 
passing  the  stiff  academic  exam,  she 
was  able  to  deepen  and  widen  other 
channels  —  literature  for  example,  as 
well  as  natine,  science,  art,  geography, 
and  public  affairs.  She  didn't  hesitate 
to  use  a  radio  in  the  classroom  and  time 
in  on  the  excellent  BBC  broadcasts  in 
these  fields.  Discipline  was  her  biggest 
problem.  Children  sat  at  twin-sized 
movable  desks  with  a  single  desk  top. 
When  one  of  them  wanted  to  be 
naughty,  all  he  had  to  do  was  jerk  the 
lid  up  and  scatter  paper  and  textbooks 
all  over  the  floor — a  commotion   that 


can    jolly    well    get    on    any    teacher's 
nerves. 

Another  of  Ruth's  innovations  was 
■  her  way  of  getting  accjuainted  with  the 
parents,  not  novel  to  us,  but  certainly 
one  which  would  meet  the  approval  of 
any  American  PTA.  She  told  the  chil- 
dren that  she  would  like  to  meet  their 
]3arents  and  suggested  that,  if  invited, 
she  would  be  happy  to  come  to  their 
respective  homes,  right  after  school.  It 
wasn't  long  until  the  formal  notes  be- 
gan coming  in.  A  typical  note  read : 
"Please  come  to  tea  tomorrow  after- 
noon. My  husband  and  I  will  be  ex- 
pecting you  to  come  home  with  Sandra 
after  school." 

Questions  from   Parents 

In  this  way,  Ruth  was  cxentuallv  in- 
\ited  to  more  than  three-fourths  of  the 
homes  of  her  students,  and  was  never 
in  a  single  home  where  a  teacher  had 
e\er  been  before.  Indeed,  she  was  told 
in  a  kindly  way  that  "the  teachers  here 
just  don't  do  it."  Iitterestingly,  the 
most  frequent  questions  posed  diu'ing 
these  "at  homes"  were:  (Man)  Why 
does  the  American  man  let  the  Amer- 
ican woman  run  all  over  him? 
(Woman")  How  do  you  train  your 
American  men  to  put  you  on  a  pedes- 
tal? And  Ruth  explained  that  she  had 
never  felt  that  she  was  on  a  pedestal 
but  that  she,  her  husband,  and  her 
children  cooperated  in  rimning  their 
home. 

Naturally,  as  Ruth's  presence  became 
known  in  the  city  she  found  herself 
confronted  with  a  growing  list  of  invi- 
tations to  address  gatherings  of  one 
sort  or  another,  with  Townswomcn's 
Guilds  predominating.  At  the  latter, 
she  found   that  thev  were  not  too  in- 


TWENTY-SEVEN  COUNTRIES  were  represented  at  the  Plymouth.  England, 
branch  of  the  International  Friendship  League  Ball  af  the  Duke  of  Cornwell 
Hotel.     Mrs.    McLean,    second    from    left,    represented    the    U.S.A.    ot    the    affair. 


terested  in  having  her  discuss  Amer- 
ican Education.  Ruth  found  a  taken- 
for  -  granted  professionalism  among 
teachers  in  England.  They  were  already 
on  a  pedestal — a  higher  one  than  ours 
— and  hadn't  had  to  work  as  hard  as 
we  have  to  get  there.  "They  are  per- 
fectly satisfied  with  their  education," 
says  Ruth.  "They  wanted  to  learn  a- 
bout  us  as  people." 

Altogether  Ruth  spoke  about  45 
times,  using  the  theme,  "The  American 
W'ay  of  Life." 

One  of  the  dividends  of  an  exchange 
teaching  post  is  the  additional  travel 
that  is  possible.  First  of  all,  there  was 
the  Before  and  After  to  the  academic 
school  year.  They  all  spent  10  days  in 
Ireland  Before,  and  After  the  school 
year  ended  thev  took  a  three-weeks 
iprench  tour  with  a  group  of  60  high 
school  bovs  (Bob's  classmates').  The 
long  Christmas  and  Easter  holidays  also 
provided  travel  time.  At  Christmas,  the 
children  stayed  in  Plymouth  (they  were 
holiday  guests  part  of  the  time)  and 
Ruth  went  to  France,  Italy,  and 
Switzerland  on  a  planned  tour  with  30 
other  American  exchange  teachers. 

Feeling   of   Home 

Meeting  in  London  four  times  dur- 
ing the  year  also  gav-e  the  exchange 
teachers  in  Britain  a  happy  opportunity 
to  compare  notes  and  to  get  "the  feel- 
ing of  home."  Ruth,  who  played  city 
and  county  championship  tennis  in 
Ohio  before  her  marriage,  finally 
"finagled"  her  wav  into  Wimbledon, 
near  London,  for  the  world's  cham- 
pionship tennis  finals.  A  former  music 
major  at  the  College  of  Wooster,  Ruth 
found  added  enjoyment  in  musical 
events  and  the  Ballet  Theatre  at  the 
Royal  Festival  Hall. 

As  you  can  easily  see,  Ruth's  hobbies 
and  special  interests  not  only  made  her 
a  better  candidate  for  an  exchange 
teachership,  but  pro\ided  background 
for  a  richer  experience.  But,  rich  or  not, 
it  all  takes  time.  One  day  when  Ruth 
was  a  bit  late  getting  home  from  teach- 
ing her  swimming  class,  she  apologized 
to  Bob  for  a  delayed  dinner. 

"Oh  well,  Mom,"  he  replied,  "I  don't 
think  you're  the  type  that  would  make 
a  batch  of  cookies  even  if  you  were 
home  and  had  the  time." 

Bob's  probably  about  50  per  cent 
right.  But  he's  also  100  per  cent  in 
agreement  with  Queen  Mother  Eliza- 
beth who  said  to  his  mother  at  a  ]3arty 
at  Lambeth  Palace;  "It's  too  bad  more 
American  teachers  can't  come  to  Bri- 
tain— and  bring  their  children.'' 

.-Ml  of  which  shows  that  in  exchange 
teaching  it's  usually  the  little  things 
that  count — even  if  some  of  them  are 
nearly  grown,  and  are  named  Joan, 
Bob,  and  Sally. 


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At  least  nine  essential  phases  of  the  University's 
dynamic  growth  and  development  depend 
entirely  upon  the  Ohio  University  Fund,  Inc.,  which  is  marking  its  tenth 
year  of  service  to  the  progress  of  higher  education. 


TEN  YEARS  AGO  an  Ohio  Uiii\cisity  Fund  was  created 
to  help  assin-e  the  growth  and  de\'elopment  so  necessary 
to  the  progress  of  higher  education.  With  the  accelerating 
programs  of  research,  new  teaching  aids,  and  other  forms  of 
educational  progress  taking  place  today,  the  OU  Fund,  Inc. 
iias  become  a  vital  part  of  the  University's  influence. 

Why  is  this  fund,  supported  by  alumni  and  friends  of 
the  University,  so  important  today? 

The  answer  to  that  question  is  a  storv  which  begins 
with  the  financing  of  many  facets  of  education  necessary 
to  maintain  top  quality  teaching  in  the  competitive  field  of 
modern  higher  education. 

Financing  of  a  state  university,  largely  controled  by  the 
state  legislature,  is  adequate  only  in  meeting  standard  items 
in  the  budget.  It  provides  very  limited  funds  for  those  new- 
projects  of  pressing  significance  to  a  virile  and  growing 
imiversity. 

To  bridge  this  gap  and  help  achieve  the  proper  ends  of 
education  in  the  twentieth  centui-y,  the  Ohio  Uni\ersity 
Fund.  Inc.  was  established. 

Objectives  of  the  OU  Fund  have  been,  and  are  still 
focused  upon  the  welfare  of  young  men  and  women  who 
come  within  the  sphere  of  the  University's  influence.  Its 
purpose  is  to  fulfill  these  needs  by  ( 1 )  enriching  and  in- 
vigorating the  life  of  the  student,  (2)  strengthening  the 
faculty  by  pro\iding  needed  teaching  facilities  and  equip- 
ment and  by  supporting  research,  and  (3)  enabling  the  ad- 
ministration to  carry  out  plans  for  the  dynamic  growth  and 
development  of  the  institution. 

Specifically,  this  is  accomplished  through  nine  separate 
groups  of  projects  which  represent  the  most  challenging 
needs  of  Ohio  University.  None  of  these  can  be  completely 
satisfied  by  legislative  appropriations. 

Research 

Today's  concept  of  education  goes  far  beyond  the  dis- 
semination of  information  to  the  advancement  of  the  boiui- 


darics  of  knowledge  through  research  of  all  types.  By  taking 
an  acti\c  part  in  scholarly  research,  the  OU  faculty  becomes 
not  only  a  part  of  this  advancement  of  knowledge,  but  also 
better  equipped  to  maintain  quality  instruction.  Contri- 
butions to  the  Fimd  provide  the  necessary  support  for  this 
work. 

Student  Aids 

The  OU  Fund  al.so  supplies  financial  assistance  for 
many  students  of  proved  character  and  intellectual  promise, 
thereby  enabling  them  to  meet  unexpected  crises.  With 
nearly  one-half  of  the  University's  students  working  at  part- 
time  jobs,  the  need  for  protection  from  critical  financial 
situations  is  obvious. 

Library  Needs 

As  the  ner\c  center  of  a  university,  the  library  must  be 
kept  sufficiently  ecjuipped  and  up  to  date  to  meet  the  de- 
mands of  expansion  and  educational  advancement.  The  Ed- 
win Watts  Chubb  Libraiy,  which  contains  more  than  225,000 
volumes,  has  always  been  a  source  of  pride  for  students  of 
OU.  Contributions  from  the  Fund  make  possible  the  pur- 
chase of  additional  books,  journals,  special  texts,  microfilm, 
and  other  modern  libraiy  aids. 

Intellectual  and  Cultural  Needs 

Anyone  who  has  attended  a  guest  lecture  or  taken  part 
in  such  extra-curricular  organizations  as  the  debate  team, 
choir,  or  chemistry  society  is  familiar  with  the  importance  of 
nourishing  the  intellectual  and  cultural  life  of  the  student 
body.  The  OU  Fund  brings  top  lecturers  and  artists  to  con- 
vocations and  to  speak  before  special  classes,  clubs,  and 
other  groups. 

Special  Equipment 

Through  the  Fund,  the  University  is  able  to  obtain  a 

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number  of  up-to-date  teaching  aids  wliich  are  now  a  neces- 
sity in  training  students  to  cope  with  the  problems  of  the 
future. 

General  Needs 

Special  needs  arise  annually  in  the  University  as  they 
do  in  the  home,  office,  or  private  life  of  every  individual. 
As  an  example,  the  University  may  need  a  portrait  of  some 
belo\ed  professor  or  dean.  The  Fund  can  help  to  secure  it. 

Other  general  needs  supported  by  the  fund  are  publi- 
cations of  all  types  which  go  out  as  printed  emessaries  of 
Ohio  University. 

Travel 

The  Uni\ersity's  deans,  faculty  members,  and  adminis- 
trators are  greatly  handicapped,  without  the  Fund,  by  a  lack 
of  other  resources  to  ])articipate  in  meetings  of  various  edu- 
cational organizations.  Fluids  lor  their  use  are  not  provided 
through  state  appropriation. 

These  men  and  women  must  be  informed  of  latest 
trends,  of  new  directions  in  the  organization  of  American 
universities.  They  should  consult  with  their  colleagues  in 
other  institutions,  participate  in  conferences  and  discussions, 
and  look  for  young  scholars  who  are  likely  prospects  for 
faculty  positions. 

The  Fimd  makes  it  possible  for  faculty  members  to  ex- 
change ideas  with  their  fellow  scholars,  investigate  new  de- 
velopments and  attend  special  institutes. 

The  President's  Fund 

Because  money  from  state  appropriations  is  strictly  ear- 
marked to  meet  the  regular  University  needs,  the  president 
would  have  no  funds  at  his  disposal  to  meet  special  emer- 
gencies or  to  take  advantage  of  sudden  opportimities,  with- 
out the  OU  Ftmd. 

Ry  means  of  the  Fiuid,  the  president  is  able  to  strengthen 
the  University  in  different  ways — to  "hold"  an  outstanding 
faculty  member,  to  purchase  vitally  needed  equipment  when 
it  comes  suddenly  on  the  market,  to  forestall  unexpected 
difficulties,  to  bolster  important  teaching  and  research  pro- 
jects. He  is  able  to  act  quickly  in  the  face  of  opportunity. 

Scholarships  and  Awards 

More  than  100  miscellaneous  scholarships  and  awards 
are  operating  at  the  University  on  a  yearly  basis,  supported 
by  the  Fund.  This  does  not  include  those  scholarships  pro- 
vided through  the  Sescjuicentennial  Scholarship  Fimd. 

The  scholarship  drive  two  years  ago  was  a  project  of  its 
own,  carried  out  at  the  time  of  the  Uni\ersity's  1.50th  anni- 
versary. To  prevent  any  conflict,  there  was  no  separate  drive 
then  for  the  permanent  OU  Fund. 

The  New  Drive 

Neither  was  there  a  drive  for  the  OU  Fund  last  year, 
although  some  alumni  and  friends  made  contributions  to 
assure  its  continued  success. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  school  year  a  new  drive 
was  begun  to  continue  the  work  of  the  OU  Fund,  under  the 
direction  of  Prof.  Albert  C.  Gubitz.  Results  to  date  are  in- 
dicated in  the  chart  on  this  page. 

Of  the  total  $18,445  from  contributors,  more  than 
$15,000  has  come  from  Athens  businessmen.  Two  alumni, 
Peter  Francis  Good,  '26,  and  Dwight  Rutherford,  '26,  were 
co-chairmen  of  the  Athens  drive. 

All  of  the  money  goes  into  the  non-profit  OU  Fund 
which  is  governed  by  a  Board  of  Trustees  chosen  to  give 
balanced  representation  to  the  corporation.  The  present 
board  members  are  Fred   H.  Johnson,   '22;   John   \V.   (',:\\- 


1955-56  OU  Fund  Drive 

Athens  Business  Drive  $15,239.28 

Remainder  of  Ohio  1 ,958.00 

California  171.00 

Colorado  27.00 

Connecticut        45.00 

Florida    205.00 

Illinois  40.00 

Indiana  20.00 

Maryland    37.00 

Massachusetts    20.09 

Michigan    50.00 

Minnesota     10.00 

Mississippi  25.00 

Missouri  20.00 

Nebraska    10.00 

New  Jersey        64.00 

New  York     161.00 

Pennsylvania     143.00 

Texas    10.00 

Utah   2.00 

Virginia     48.00 

Washington    10.00 

Washington,   D.  C 20.00 

West  Virginia    30.00 

Alaska    10.00 

Central  America 50.00 

Guam          5.00 

India     5.00 

total    $18,445.37 


breath,  "20;  Dwight  H.  Rutherford,  "26;  Paul  R.  O'Brien, 
•32;  Russell  P.  Herrold.  "16;  Joseph  S.  Gill,  '38;  and  OU 
President  John  C.  Baker. 

Officers  of  the  Fund  are  Mr.  Johnson,  chairman ;  Mr. 
O'Brien,  treasurer;  and  Professor  Gubitz,  director. 

Disbursements  are  made  under  the  direction  of  this 
group  of  alumni  and  administrators.  Donors  may  earmark 
their  contributions  for  special  purposes  if  they  wish. 

C^ontributions  to  the  Ohio  University  Fund  arc  deduct- 
ible, within  the  provisions  of  the  Internal  Revenue  Code,  on 
income  tax  returns  both  of  corporations  and  of  individuals. 
Similarly,  gifts  of  property  to  the  Fund  and  bequests,  legacies, 
devises,  or  transfers  to,  or  for  the  u.se  of  the  Fund  are 
deductible. 

Every  year  Ohio  University  finds 
frontiers  of  education.  Accomplishments 
versily  Fund  have  already  ])ro\ed  its 
conquering  of  these  frontiers. 


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The    Ohio    Alumnus 


The  Home  Life 
Of  a  Superintendent 


DR.  BYERS,  who  received  the 
M.A.  degree  from  Ohio  Uni- 
versity in  1937,  has  gained  na- 
tional recognition  for  his  work  as 
superintendent  of  the  Parma, 
Ohio,  public  schools.  His  progres- 
sive school  policies  have  been  used 
as  models  for  school  administra- 
tions in  several  states. 

Known  as  the  philoso-funster 
when  he  lectures,  Dr.  Byers  is  also 
called  upon  frequently  to  contri- 
bute his  philosophical  reflections 
to  various  publications. 

This  article  is  reprinted  from 
"The  School  Executive,"  with  the 
permission  of  the  editors  and  the 
author. 


By  Dr.  Carl  C.  Byers 


THE  HOME  and  community  life 
of  a  su]5erintendent  miglit  well  be 
likened  to  that  of  an  elevator.  It  has 
its  ups  and  downs  and  its  stops  and 
jerks.  The  ups  and  downs  aren't 
minded,  and  the  stops  don't  distract 
too  much,  but  we  could  get  along 
nicely  with  fewer  jerks,  especially  those 
who  seem  educated  beyond  their  in- 
telligence. 

Every  su]jerintendent  is  busier  than 
any  other  superintendent.  Each  has  less 
home  life  and  more  community  activi- 
ties than  his  fellows.  A  superintendent 
is  only  one  person,  but  meetings  are 
many,  and  he's  expected  to  be  there. 
If  community  life  is  in  a  dither,  with 
everybody  running  hither,  thither  and 
"yawn,"  it's  because  of  too  many  meet- 
ings. I've  concluded  that  meetings  are 
places  where  people  go  to  learn  how 
to  do  better  the  things  they  don't  have 
time  to  do  anyway — because  of  too 
many  meetings. 

Bond   Issues  et  a\ 

With  the  christening  of  infants  be- 
coming an  assembly-line  ceremony  in 
many  communities,  the  problem  of 
bond  issues,  operating  levies,  building 
schools,  planning  transportation,  feed- 
ing children  and  a  thousand  and  one 
other  problems,  the  superintendent  at 
the  end  of  one  of  his  daze  looks  as 
if  he  had  been  shot  at  and  hit. 

If  a  new  building  is  located  here, 
someone  says  it  should  have  been 
there.  If  a  school  bus  stops  at  Corner 
A,  someone  wants  the  stop  moved  on 
down  the  street.  Some  want  sex  edu- 
cation to  begin  in  the  Kindergarten; 
and  others  say,  "That's  for  the  home 
to  teach,  not  the  school." 

A  person  has  to  watch  out  at  to- 
day's  pace,    or    he'll    be    lun    over   by 


Dr.  Byers 


words.  I'm  reminded  of  two  motor- 
ists who  met  on  a  bridge  too  narrow 
for  two  cars  to  pass.  Yelled  the  one 
driver,  "I  never  back  up  for  an  idiot." 
"That's  all  right,"  said  the  other  as  he 
shifted  in  re\erse,  "I  always  do."  That's 
a  good  school-commimity  point-of-view. 
Yes,  I  know  how  it  is,  Mr.  .Super- 
intendent. You're  living  in  a  gold- 
fish bowl,  as  it  were,  and  just  when 
things  seem  to  be  going  nicely — look 
out!  About  that  time  some  self- 
appointed  crusader  unfurls  his  tongue 
and  leaves  a  person  feeling  as  if  some- 
one had  hit  him  in  the  back  of  the 
head  with  an  ax.  For  a  moment  you 
become  a  split  personality.  You  feel 
like  striking  back,  but  recall  that  you 
are  a  public  servant,  promoting  a 
"child-centered  school  in  a  school- 
minded  community."  You  shut  u])  like 
a  clam,  consider  the  source,  and  ration- 
alize with  something  like,  "Well,  I 
don't  know  what's  eating  him,  but 
whatever  it  is — it'll  sure  get  indiges- 
tion."  You  bet,   it's   a  great  life.   You 


can't  reform  the  world,  but  the  ulcer 
that  you  sa\e  may  be  your  own. 

Recently  I  walked  into  the  boys' 
rest  room  in  one  of  our  elementary 
schools.  As  soon  as  I  entered,  I  saw 
a  couple  little  tads,  second  or  third 
graders,  and  greeted  them  with  the 
usual,  "Hello,  boys."  One  little  fellow 
pointed  a  finger  at  me  and  said,  "Who 
are  you?"  I  thought  to  myself,  that's 
a  good  question — I'll  play  it  straight 
and  see  if  I  make  an  impression  upon 
the  little  shavers.  So  I  said,  "My  name 
is  Byers.  I'm  Superiittendent  of  the 
Parma  Public  Schools."  To  that,  the 
other  one  replied,  "Oh,  yes,  you're  the 
guy  that  rings  the  bells." 

And,  believe  me,  after  a  good  laugh 
(which  made  the  day  seem  a  bit 
brighter) ,  I  couldn't  help  but  think 
of  the  serious  message  back  of  that 
statement.  If  each  of  us  (parents  and 
teachers,  or  both)  will  put  forth  just 
a  little  extra  effort  to  help  ring  the 
bells  in  oin-  respective  communities, 
we'll  be  lending  a  hand  toward  build- 
ing a  pretty  fine  world. 


Valu 


3f  Hun 


Without  a  doubt,  humor  is  both 
mental  and  fundamental  to  the  physi- 
cal and  spiritual  well-being  of  a  school 
administrator,  his  family  and  his  com- 
munity. If  the  task  of  a  teacher  is  to 
take  a  lot  of  live  wires  and  see  to  it 
that  they're  well  grounded,  then  it 
follows  that  a  superintendent's  job  is 
to  avoid  short  circuits  and  blown  fuses 
in  the  mazes  of  live  wires  encountered 
in  school  and  commimity  contacts. 
How  shocking  the  experiences  may  be 
depends  upon  the  attitude  of  mind  of 
all  concerned.  Here's  hoping  your  short 
circuits  were  few  in  '55  and  may  your 
blown   fuses  be  even  fewer  in  '56. 


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Bobcat 


Roundup 


By  Rowland  Congdon 


Sports  Pi'blicity  Director 


OHIO  UNIVERSITY  spring  sports 
sc|uads  are  off  to  one  of  their  best 
combined  season  records  in  many  years. 
Through  the  weekend  of  April  21  the 
baseball,  golf,  tennis  and  track  squads 
were  sailing  along  with  19  wins  and  six 
losses. 

Percentage-wise  the  track  team  of 
Coach  Jim  Johnson  had  the  best 
record,  3-0.  Coach  Bob  Wren's  base- 
ballers  were  riding  the  crest  of  a  7- 
game  winning  streak  in  their  8-1  record 
for  .889  percent.  The  golf  squad  had 
posted  a  7-3  record  for  .700  and  the 
tennis  group  won  one  and  lost  two. 

Speed  on  the  Cinders 

Almost  assured  of  its  best  record  in 
at  least  seven  years  is  the  track  team. 
Beginning  in  1949,  no  OU  cinder  squad 
has  compiled  more  than  three  dual 
meet  wins  in  one  season. 


VETERANS  ON  THE  MOUND   (I  tor)   are  Scott 
whom    hove    shown    championship   form    in   the   O 


But  with  such  foes  as  Bowling  Green, 
Western  Michigan,  Miami  and  Bald- 
win-Wallace still  on  the  schedule,  Ohio 
will  have  its  hands  full  in  impro\ing 
on  the  present  record.  Kent  State  is  also 
to  be  met  and  the  Bobcats  should  be 
considered  favorites  over  the  Flashes 
on  the  basis  of  past  pertormances. 

Nevertheless,  Johnson  is  blessed  with 
unexpected  first  place  strength  on  his 
squad  this  season. 

Paced  by  Seniors  Frank  Nixon,  cap- 
tain, and  Rudv  Koletic.  and  Junior  Bob 


POWER   AT   THE    PLATE   has   been    more   than   amply   furnished    by   the   big   bats  of    (I  tor)    Center- 
felder    Ron    Naltatsuji,    First    Baseman    Jay    Horniby,    and    Third    Baseman    Ray   Thompson,    captain. 


<^h  o^^o^h 


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y   Griesheimer,    Ralph   Nuzum,   and   Bill   Hin!(le,   all  of 
U    baseball   team's   early   season   string   of  victories. 


Sawyers,  the  Bobcats  have  received  help 
from  such  underclassmen  as  Bill  E\ans, 
Millard  Mosley,  Tom  Callow,  Harold 
Buchert,  Don  Schulick  and  Wally 
Guenther. 

Koletic  has  comjjilecl  36^/3  points  on 
the  basis  ot  six  first  places  and  one  tie 
for  first,  a  tie  for  second  and  one  third 
place  in  the  three  wins  over  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan  83'/3-432/!,  Marshall  105-36,  and 
West  Virginia  8-i%-37yj. 

The  Cleveland  senior  is  undefeated 
in  the  120  yard  high  hurdles,  220  yard 
low  hurdles  and  has  a  first  place  tie  in 
the  high  jump.  Nixon,  from  Lakewood, 
is  second  leading  jjoint  getter  with  four 
firsts  and  three  seconds  for  29  points. 
He  has  three  firsts  in  the  mile  run  and 
one  in  the  /2-mile. 

Third  top  point-getter  with  28  was 
Bill  Evans,  with  three  firsts,  four  sec- 
onds and  a  third  place  finish.  E\ans  is 
a  jimior  from  Kingston. 

Mosley,  a  Cle\eland  sophomore,  has 
I8/2  points  for  fourth  place,  with  two 
first  places  and  a  tie,  one  second  and 
one  third  place  ])lus  a  tie.  His  wins  have 
been  in  the  high  jump  and  broad  jump. 
"Moe""  also  competes  in  the  100  yard 
dash  and  on  the  /2-mile  and  mile  relay 
teams. 

Clallow's  18  ])oints  put  him  in  fifth 
place  among  the  point-getters  with  one 
first  place-— in  the  100-yard  dash — four 
seconds  and  a  third.  Most  of  his  other 

The     Ohio    ALtJMNus 


points  have  come  in  the  220  yard  dash. 
He  is  a  Cleveland  junior. 

Buchert's  17  points  ha\e  been  re- 
corded on  three  wins  and  two  third 
place  finishes.  He  competes  mostly  in 
the  dashes  and  on  the  relay  teams.  He 
is  a  sophomore  from  Piketon. 

Tied  with  Buchert's  1 7  is  Sawyers, 
OU  record  holder  in  the  ■/2-milc,  who 
has  been  getting  off  to  a  slow  start  so 
far  this  year.  The  Cleveland  junior  has 
recorded  two  wins,  both  in  the  ■/2- 
mile,  been  second  twice  in  the  mile  run. 
and  has  a  third  in  the  J/2-mile. 

Sophomore  Don  Schuiick  has  com- 
piled 15  points  on  one  shotput  win, 
three  seconds  in  the  discus  and  shot, 
and  a  third  in  the  discus. 

Others  who  have  gained  ])oints  in  the 
three  meets  ha\'c  been  Guenther,  1-1; 
Charles  Wood,  1 1  ;  Bob  Clain.  1 1  ;  Phil 
Kramer,  9;  Dick  Wiley,  7:  Aljah  But- 
cher, 6;  Tom  Thibert,  4y^s;  Dave  Lund- 
berg,  3,  and  John  Lent,  1. 

Victory  on  the  Diamond 

The  baseball  team  was  off  to  a  fast 
start  after  recording  four  wins  in  five 
games  on  the  southern  tour.  Five  other 
games  have  been  postponed  up  to  April 
21  but  the  Bobcats  managed  to  get  in 
nine  of  their  scheduled  14,  winning 
eight. 

Highlight  of  the  results  to  date  has 
been  the  run-producing  ability  of  this 
year's  team.  The  Bobcats  were  averag- 
ing nine  runs  a  game  while  their  oppo- 
nents were  getting  an  average  of  4'/2 
runs. 

Scores  were  7-3  over  Newberry,  S. 
C,  College;  4-6  loss  to  Parris  Island 
Marines;  wins  of  8-7  and  7-0  over  the 
Marines;  14-8  o\er  Virginia  Tech;  13-1 
and  7-5  over  Pittsburgh  and  9-3  and 
12-7  over  Toledo,  the  latter  opening 
the  Mid-American  Conference  season. 

Ralph  Nuzum,  Athens  righthander 
was  credited  with  four  wins  and  no 
losses;  Scotty  Griesheimer,  of  Chilli- 
cothe,  two  wins  and  no  losses  and  Jern- 
Driscoll,  of  Bedford,  two  wins  and 
one  loss. 

At  least  six  regulars  were  hitting  over 
.300.  Ron  Nakatsuji,  Hawaiian  center- 
fielder  was  leading  the  team  in  hitting 
with  a  .438  average  and  13  RBFs.  Jay 
Hornsby,  Cincinnati  senior  shifted  to 
first  base  this  season,  was  hitting  .436 
with  four  home  runs  and  10  RBI's. 

Catcher  Bill  Tewksbury,  Albany 
junior,  was  clouting  the  ball  at  a  .406 
pace,  followed  by  Second  baseman 
Myron  Hutcheson's  .370,  Scotty  Gries- 
heimer's  .342  (he  plays  left  field  when 
not  pitching) ,  and  third  baseman  Rav 
Thomjjson's  .333,  with  11  RBI's. 
Hutcheson  is  from  Columbus  and 
Thomjjson  calls  Canton  iiome. 

The  Bobcats  as  a  team  were  hittins; 


SOPHOMORE    MILLARD    MOSLtY    has 

every    spring 

Cleveland    athlete    also   does   the    broad    jump   and    runs   the   dashes   and   the    relays. 


.328  through  the  first  nine  games  while 
the  opponents  were  hitting  a  collective 
.227.  OU  also  had  the  edge  in  fielding 
with  a  .968  percentage,  committing  1 1 
errors  to  the  opposition's  23  errors  and 
a  .935  fielding  mark. 

Champions  on  the  Links 

In  golf,  the  Bobcats  lost  their  first 
two  matches  on  the  southern  trip. 
16/2-131/2  to  North  Carolina  State  and 
22-5  to  Wake  Forest.  In  a  two-day 
tournament  among  four  teams  at  White 
Sulphur  Springs,  W.  'Va.,  the  Bobcats 
emerged  on  top  with  26  points  to  17/2 
for  Colgate  and  Washington  and  Lee 
and  1 1  for  Denison.  At  Virginia  Mili- 
tary Institute,  Kermit  Blosser's  charges 
copped  an  8-1  win  and  tollowed  with 
a  6/2-2/2  defeat  of  Virginia  Tech. 

After  returning  home,  the  Bobcats 
downed  Marshall  I8/2-8/2  on  the 
Huntington,  W.  Va.,  coiu'se;  won  from 
Pittsburgh  at  Athens  Country  Club, 
27/2-8/2,  and  lost  a  36-hole  match 
over  the  University  Scarlet  Course  at 
Columbus  to  Ohio  State,  31-5.  A  10-5 
win  from  Marietta  and  13-7  concjuest 
of  Ohio  \Vesleyan  brought  the  record 
to  7  wins,  3  losses  for  the  defending 
Mid-American   Conference  champions. 

Two  Dayton  golfers,  Sophomore 
Dick  Luther  and  Junior  Don  Todd, 
are  leading  the  point  getters  with  15 
apiece.  Each  has  played  in  seven  of 
the  10  matches.  Next,  with  12 /a  points 
in  seven  matches,  was  Fred  Wilt,  also 
a  sophomore,  of  Findlay. 

Closely  bunched,  with  1 1 />  11,  and 
10/2   points,   respectively,  were  Letter- 


men  Jack  Algeo,  Athens;  Da\e  Moore, 
Cincinnati,  and  Dudley  Kircher,  Day- 
ton. Algeo  has  been  in  se\en  matches, 
Moore  in  five  and  Kircher  in  eight. 
Moore  is  defending  conference  indivi- 
dual champion. 

Other  point-getters  through  the  first 
10  matches  were  Warren  Worthley, 
Mansfield,  9/2 ;  Jerry  Knox,  Mt.  Ver- 
non, 6/2;  Tom  Welsh,  Xenia,  6;  John 
Karsco,  Columbus,  3;  Ben  Thorndill, 
Pittsbiugh,  Pa.,  1 ,  and  Bob  Wagner, 
West  Jefferson,  /a. 

Building  at  the  Nets 

Bob  Bartels'  tennis  squad  posted  the 
school's  first  tennis  win  since  1954 
when  they  defeated  Wittenberg  5-4. 

Opening  season  losses  were  at  the 
hands  of  Kenyon,  8-1,  and  Marshall, 
7-2. 

.Setting  the  pace  for  the  netters  has 
been  So]5homore  Bob  Bredenfoerder  of 
Mariemont,  with  three  singles  wins  in 
as  many  matches,  plus  a  doubles  win 
with  Junior  lettennan  Al  Ludlum  over 
Marshall. 

Other  winners  against  Wittenberg 
were  Ludlum,  Portsmouth  Sophomore 
Dick  Woolwine,  and  doubles  teams  of 
Sophomore  Jim  Hartman,  Mai-iemont, 
and  Ludlum,  and  Joe  Saggio,  Cleve- 
land senior,  and  Bredenfoerder. 

Also  on  the  tennis  roster  are  Roger 
Fenneman,  Mansfield  senior  lettennan; 
Carl  Hutcheson,  Thomasville,  Ga., 
senior  letteiTnan :  Dick  Nellis,  Athens 
senior  letterman;  Gaiy  Schreiber, 
Louis\ille,  Ky.,  soj^homore,  and  Don 
Wolpert.  a  sophomore  from  Lockport, 
N.  Y. 


May,     195  6 


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Dr.  Heidler  Dies 

Dr.  Joseph  B.  Heidler,  professor  of 
English  and  author  of  seseral  books 
and  articles,  died  April  17  following  an 
illness  of  four  months.  He  had  been  a 
member  of  the  faculty  since  1927  and 
a  full  professor  since  September  of 
1936. 

Born  in  Springfield,  Illinois,  Dr. 
Heidler  graduated  from  high  school 
there  in  1914.  and  received  the  A.B. 
and  A.M.  degrees  from  the  Uni\ersitv 
of  Illinois  in  1921  and  1923. 

After  two  years  of  teaching  at  Fort 
Worth  (Texas)  High  School  and  the 
University  of  Texas,  he  returned  to 
Illinois  to  teach  and  work  toward  a 
doctorate.  In  1926  he  received  the 
Ph.D.  degree  and  accepted  a  position 
as  assistant  professor  of  English  at  the 
University  of  New^  Mexico. 

One  year  later  Dr.  Heidler  came  to 
Ohio  University  as  an  associate  pro- 
fessor of  English. 

During  his  29  years  on  the  OU 
faculty  the  veteran  educator  co-auth- 
ored two  books.  They  were  "A  History 
of  English  Literature,"  with  Professor 
H.  H.  Peckham;  and  "College  Com- 
position," with  J.  Homer  Caskey  and 
Dr.  Edith  Wray. 

He  also  edited  a  book,  "College 
Years"  in  1933,  and  authored  nine 
articles  and  book  reviews  in  major  pro- 
fessional journals. 

Dr.  Heidler  is  sunixed  by  his  wife 
and  a  son,  Robert,  now  ser\ing  in  the 
United  States  Anny. 


Chairman  Steps  Down 

One  of  the  longest  faculty  chairman- 
ships ever  held  at  Ohio  University  will 
be  relinquished  in  June  when  Miss 
Sarah  Hatcher,  chainnan  of  the  Wom- 
en's Physical  Education  staff,  retires 
from  that  position  after  28  years' 
service. 

She  will  continue  in  her  role  as  as- 
sociate professor  of  physical  education 
and  athletics. 

Although  Miss  Hatcher  asked  to  be 
relieved  of  the  chairmanship  last  year, 
she  agreed  to  complete  the  current  aca- 
demic year  when  a  successor  was  not 
immediately  available. 

Miss  Hatcher  came  to  Ohio  Univer- 
sity as  an  associate  professor  and  chair- 
man of  the  women's  athletic  program 
in  1927  from  East  Texas  State  Teachers 
College  where  she  had  taught  physical 
education  for  six  years.  Before  that  she 
taught  for  two  years  at  Georgia  Col- 
lege for  Women  and  Peabody  Clollege 
in  Nashville,  Tennessee. 


Dr.  Dohn.\nvi 

Also  in  her  pre-Ohio  University  ex- 
perience was  a  year  as  a  teacher,  social 
worker,  and  children's  recreation  pro- 
gram director  in  a  United  States  Steel 
mining  town  near  Birmingham,  Ala- 
bama. 

Born  in  Fayetteville,  Tennessee,  Miss 
Hatcher  attended  Morgan  Preparatory 
School  there  and  Agnes  Scott  College 
in  Decatur,  Georgia.  She  received  her 
bachelor  of  science  degree  from  Pea- 
body  C^oUege  and  her  M.A.  from  Co- 
lumbia University. 

She  has  also  done  graduate  work  at 
New  York  University  and  the  Uni\er- 
sity  of  California. 

Miss  Hatcher's  successor  as  chainnan 
of  the  women's  physical  education  pro- 
gram which  this  year  included  some 
2200  class  participants,  will  be  an- 
nounced soon. 


Best  History  Text 

Dr.  Carl  G.  Gustavson,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  histoiy,  has  received  the  an- 
nual award  of  the  Ohio  Academy  of 
History  for  the  best  book  written  by 
an  Ohio  historian  in  the  past  year. 

The  award,  presented  at  the  Aca- 
demy's spring  meeting  in  Cokmibus. 
was  given  for  Dr.  Gustavson's  "Preface 
to  History,"  now  being  used  as  a  text- 
book in  several  universities. 

Dr.  Gustavson  has  also  been  honored 
within  the  last  month  by  the  American 
Philosophical  Society,  with  a  grant  to 
work  at  the  Libra n'  of  Congress  this 
summer. 


Composer  Visits  Campus 

Dr.  Ernst  von  Dohnanyi,  professor  of 
composition  and  piano  at  Florida  State 
Uni\ersity,  visited  the  OL'   campus  as 


guest  lecturer  for  the  sexenth  straight 
year  April  3-24. 

The  eminent  Hungarian  composer, 
conductor,  and  pianist,  who  wrote  the 
"American  Rhapsody"  in  honor  of 
Ohio  University's  sesquicentennial  cele- 
bration, conducted  twice-a-week  piano 
and  ensemble  classes  during  his  April 
visit.  The  classes  were  open  to  the 
public. 

On  April  15  Dr.  Dohnanyi  presented 
a  con\ocation  recital,  and  on  April  22 
he  appeared  as  piano  soloist  with  the 
University  Symphony  Orchestra. 


Faculty   Briefs 

Robert  E.  Mahn  was  one  of  three 
university  registrars  representing  the 
American  Association  of  College  Regis- 
trars and  Admissions  Officers  at  a  con- 
ference with  officials  of  the  U.  S.  Office 
of  Education  in  Washington,  D.  C.  last 
month. 

On  the  agenda  for  the  three-day  con- 
ference were  discussions  of  the  educa- 
tion office's  current  and  projected  re- 
search projects,  c|uestionnaires  and  re- 
ports, and  definitions  and  terminology. 

Later  in  the  month  Mr.  Mahn  at- 
tended the  Association's  national  con- 
\ention  in  Detroit,  where  he  headed  a 
panel  discussion  and  met  with  the  edi- 
torial board  and  committees  on  special 
projects,  the  regional  associations,  and 
cooperation  with  go\ernment  agencies. 

Dr.  a.  T.  Volwiler,  chairman  of 
the  history  department,  served  as  chair- 
man of  a  meeting  on  "party  politics 
in  the  late  1800's''  at  a  conference  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley  Historical  Associ- 
ation in  Pittsburgh  April   19-21. 

Other  faculty  members  attending  the 
conclave  are  Dr.  Fred  D.  Kershner, 
Dr.  George  H.  Lobdell,  and  Dr. 
Charles  R.  Mayes. 

Dean  of  Women  Margaret  Deppen 
and  Assistant  Dean  Erma  I.  Ander- 
son participated  in  the  annual  con- 
vention of  the  National  Association 
of  Deans  of  Women  at  Cincinnati 
March  22-25.  Miss  Deppen  took  part 
in  a  discussion  of  "The  L^ndergraduate 
Student  Assistant."'  and  Miss  Anderson 
moderated  a  student  jjanel  on  "Look- 
ing Beyond  the  College  Years." 

Prof.  L.  C.  Mitchell,  Isabelle  M. 
Work^  and  Edna  M.  Way^  all  of  the 
Fine  Arts  faculty,  exhibited  works  in 
a  Chi  Omega  art  show  and  sale  at 
Marietta  College  in  March. 


Page  twenty-four 


The    Ohio    Alumnus 


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tne  ^>^Il 


umni 


1900 

E.  Harry  Bean,  a  practicing  osteopath 
in  Pensacola,  Floricia.  is  the  author  of  a 
new  book,  "The  Spirit  of  Osteopathy,"  pub- 
lished by  Pageant  Press.  Inc.  It  is  a  fascin- 
ating story  of  the  life  and  work  of  a  Ten- 
nessee-born pioneer  physician  named  -An- 
drew Taylor  Still,  who  is  now  acclaimed  as 
the  founder  of  Osteopathy.  Dr.  Bean  had  the 
rare  opportunity  to  act  as  secretary  to  Dr. 
Still  when  the  great  old  man  was  writing 
his  now-famous  book  on  the  research  and 
practice  of  Osteopathy.  Publication  of  Dr. 
Bean's  book  came  on  .-\pril  25.  the  author's 
81st  birthday. 


1910 
By  C.  O.  WILLI.AMSON.  Wo:>ster,  Ohio 

Louise  Dana  Tripp  was  featured  in  the 
Orlando  Evening  Star  recently  for  winning 
first  prize  in  the  portrait  division  of  an  art 
contest.  She  has  just  finished  a  portrait  of 
Mrs.  William  Candler.  Jr..  of  the  Coca  Cola 
family,  and  is  connnissioned  to  do  a  lar.ge 
portrait  of  Mr.  Philip  Caruso,  owner  of  the 
Blue  Bird  Citrus  Company.  Louise  was  .i 
newspaper  and  magazine  artist  in  New  York 
City  before  moving  to  Florida. 

Dr.  John  J.  Richeson  and  his  wife  are 
"living  among  peonies  and  pansies.  iris  and 
columbine,  from  narcissi  to  chrysanthemum 
time,  with  a  few  sheep,  on  IS'/t  acres  in 
North   Jackson.   Ohio." 

W.  F.  Wolfe  has  retired  as  vice  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  the  Warner 
Collieries  Company  at  Cedar  Grove,  West 
Virginia,  but  is  doing  consulting  engineer- 
ing. He  has  three  daughters,  four  grand- 
sons, and  one  granddaughter. 

Bert  D.  Boyd,  Lakewood.  has  been  work- 
ing for  Uncle  Sam  for  28  years  and  is  still 
going  strong.  .\  son,  Bert,  Jr..  works  for  the 
U.  S.  Post  Office  Department,  and  a  daugh- 
ter. Martha  Boyd  Kemmel.  '40.  teaches 
kindergarten. 

LoRiNG  G.  Connett  is  spending  the  win- 
ter in  San  Diego.  California,  and  finding 
time  to  visit  friends  in  Los  .Angeles  and 
Mexico.  He  still  maintains  a  home  in  .■\thens. 

Birdie  Mac::Naughton  Ehrbar  (Mrs. 
Fred ) .  of  Brecksville,  Ohio,  has  a  married 
son  living  in  Hollywood,  California,  and  two 
granddaughters. 

H.  C.  (Spike)  Deckard  is  \ice  president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Convair  Cor- 
poration plant  in  Ft.  Worth,  Texas.  Before 
going  to  Convair  in  1950  he  was  consultant 
to  the  .Air  Force.  He  reports  260,000  miles 
logged  on  .Air  Force  business. 


1914 

Professor  Samuel  Renshaw  of  the 
Ohio  State  University  psychology  depart- 
ment, received  the  United  States  Navy's 
Distinguished  Public  Service  .Award  at  cere- 
monies in  Columbus  .April  16.  He  received 
the  award  from  \'ice  .Admiral  .Austin  K. 
Doyle  for  his  training  of  Naval  personnel 
on  recognition  methods  during  World  War 
IL 


1915 

Jean  Talbott  Brandle  ( Mrs.  W.  H. ) 
has  been  operating  her  husband's  shoe  store 
in  ChiUicothe  since  last  June,  during  Mr. 
Brandlc's  illness.  Mr.  Brandle  has  recovered, 
and  returned  to  his  business  last  month. 


1916 

.Anthony  O.  Mathias,  principal  of  Cin- 
cinnati's Withrow  High  School,  has  an- 
nounced his  retirement  at  the  end  of  the 
current  school  year.  Mr.  Mathias  began  his 
career    teaching    in    .Adams    County,    Ohio, 


From   the   Annals 


BY  ROBERT  E.  MAHN 


Class  of  1912  Gatlwav 


UNVEILED  at  Class  -  Day 
exercises  in  1912.  use  of  the 
Gateway  increases  each  year  as 
University  expansion  continues  a- 
long  Union  and  College  Streets. 

From  the  platlorin  erected  for 
the  class-day  exercises,  C.  E. 
Stailey  delivered  the  salutatory, 
reminding  his  robed  classmates 
that  "the  pace  of  progress  is  swift 
and  terrible.  If  we  fall  behind, 
we  are  called  reactionaries.  If  we 
forge  ahead  we  are  called  re- 
formers." Miss  Bessie  M.  Gorslcne 
read  the  class  poem  she  had  writ- 
ten. This  is  the  stanza  that  tells 
about  Athens"  "green  encircling 
hills." 

Who  hath  not  climbed  those 
hills  ere  day  is  gone 

From  out  the  west,  or  when 
the  happy  dawn 

Has  brushed  with  rosy  finger 
mead  and  lawn. 

And   called   our   college 
fair? 

Professor  C.  M.  Copeland,  the 
class  professor,  spoke  of  the 
"strong  and  good  record"  of  the 
class.  As  a  point  of  emphasis  he 
mentioned  that  it  was  the  first 
class  lailing  to  ask  to  be  excused 
from  final  examinations,  adding 
that  "they  were  not." 

Following    the    \aledictoiy    by 


Caroline  Mai-y  Ella  Buch,  Harry 
Ridenour  surrendered  the  keys  of 
O.U.  to  Lewis  Miller  of  the  Class 
of  1913,  remarking  about  a  large 
key  that  it  "was  proportionate  to 
the  size  of  one's  pocket  when 
landing  at  O.L^.,"  and  about  a 
very  small  one  that  "this  fits  the 
pocket  when  one  leaves."  There 
was  a  smooth  key  used  to  "work" 
the  faculty,  and  still  another  key, 
rusting  because  of  too  little  use, 
guarding  the  traditions  of  O.U. 
Mr.  Miller  promised  no  use  of  the 
ovei-worked  "faculty"  key,  but 
good  tise  of  the  tradition  key. 

Then  came  the  presentation  of 
the  Gateway  by  Harold  Elson  in 
what  the  Athens  Messenger 
teiTiied  a  "neat  speech,"  and  its 
unveiling  by  Gertnide  O'Connor. 
Professor  Elson,  father  of  Harold, 
accepted  the  gift  for  the  LTniver- 
sity.  The  Messenger  added  an- 
other platitude,  tenning  the 
whole  exercise  "one  of  the  pret- 
tiest" of  commencement  week  and 
as  something  that  should  be  a 
source  of  pride  and  satisfaction  to 
members  of  the  Class.  Pride  can 
be  taken  by  members  of  this  class 
in  the  fact  that  it  is  the  only 
class  that  has  presented  a  gate- 
way to  the  LTniversitv. 


M  .\  Y  ,      19  5  6 


Page  twenty-five 


in  1907.  He  sened  as  superintendent  at 
Cherry  Fork  and  West  Union.  Ohio,  before 
entering  OU.  After  graduation  he  taught  at 
Woodward,  Ohio,  going  to  \\  ithrovv  in  1919. 
He  has  been  principal  of  the  school,  largest 
public  high  school  in  Ohio,  since  1947. 

1918 

F.  Erxe.st  Bolton  is  with  E.  I.  du  Pont 
de  Nemours  &  Company,  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware, His  third  daughter  graduated  from 
Syracuse  University  last  .June. 

1921 

Hovv.\RD  L.  Hammond  is  assistant  re- 
gional real  estate  manager  for  the  U,  S. 
Post  Oflfice  Department,  Cincinnati. 

1922 

Homer  R.  Cotterm.w  is  a  professor  of 
education  at   Capital   University,   Columbus. 

1923 

Eileen  W.^goner,  a  teacher  at  the  Mid- 
Pacific  Institute  in  Honolulu,  Hawaii,  plans 
to  attend  the  June  aliunni  reunion  for  the 
first   time  since  her  graduation. 


1925 

C.  B.  T.\lley  is  district  manager  of  the 
.Appalachian  Electric  Power  Company, 
Charleston,  West  Virginia.  Mrs.  Talley  is 
the  former  ."Mice  Mercer,  '23. 

1927 

T.  LvsTON  FuLTZ.  who  has  been  temp- 
orary superintendent  of  Boys'  Industrial 
School  at  Lancaster  the  past  year,  has  ac- 
cepted permanent  appointment  to  the  posi- 
tion. Before  going  to  BIS  in  1940,  Mr. 
Fidtz  was  a  teacher  and  coach  at  the  Ohio 
Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Orphans'  Home  in 
Xenia. 


1930 

Evelyn  McKinlev  Schneider  (Mrs. 
Carl  H.)  has  created  a  tropical  atmosphere 
in  the  garden  of  her  home  in  Houston, 
Texas,  which  has  been  the  center  of  a  great 
deal  of  interest  and  publicity.  .A  large  yard, 
a  greenhouse,  and  a  roomy  conservatory 
provide  places  for  her  to  work  every  day, 
rain  or  shine.  Five  years  ago  Mrs.  Schneider 


completely  relandscaped  her  place.  A  wall 
was  built  to  enclose  the  back  yard  and  wide, 
raised  and  curbed  beds  now  encircle  the 
area.  She  grows  not  only  most  shrubs  and 
flowers  common  to  the  Houston  area,  but  a 
number  of  rare  plants  as  well.  Some  of  the 
latter  are  an  avocado  tree,  grown  from  seed 
she  planted  six  years  ago.  dwarf  ornamental 
bananas,  evergreen  wisteria,  .\mazon  lilies, 
dwarf  plumbago,  Chinese  paper  plant,  hi- 
biscus, elephant  ear,  mimosa,  gay  coleus,  a 
rubber  plant,  and  others.  .A  raised  pool  teem- 
ing with  tropical  fish  is  in  the  center  of  the 
garden,  and  at  one  end  arc  several  large 
shade  trees  and  picnic  tables.  The  green- 
house serves  as  a  winter  retreat  for  tender 
plants  and  enables  the  startin.g  of  spring 
seedlings  ahead  of  the  season. 

1931 

Marguerite  Fr.\nk,  ,\thens  piano  teach- 
er, has  a  15  minute  program  on  .\thens 
Radio  Station  W,\TH  e\ery  Monday,  Wed- 
nesday, and  Friday  at  5;  45  p.m.  The  pro- 
gram, known  as  "Keyboard  Kapers,"  in- 
cludes a  variety  of  music,  mostly  popular 
request  tunes. 


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with  people  that  she  felt  was  essential 
among  students,  but  it  was  also  ap- 
pieciative  alertness  that  she  encour- 
aged. To  create  a  desire  for  an  ap- 
preciation of  the  fine  and  the  beautiful, 
she  threw  her  home  open  to  the  stu- 
dents at  all  times,  but  especially  for 
the  Sunday  firesides,  devoted  to  the 
discussion  of  poetry,  the  arts,  music 
as  well  as  important  afiairs  of  the  day. 
In  the  infomial  atmosphere  which  cre- 
ated uninhibited  discussion  girls  and 
boys  alike  experienced  new  aspirations, 
new  ideas,  new  goals. 

She  often  played  records  of  Wagneri- 
an operas  and  told  the  students  of  her 
experience  in  Germany  one  summer 
when  she  saw  and  heard  the  entiie 
Ring.  It  was  not  just  the  music,  but 
it  was  her  enthusiasm  as  well  which 
made  the  students  say,  "Dean.  I'd  like 
to  go  with  you  some  day  to  hear  it 
too."  One  summer  she  did  take  a  group 
of  students  to  Europe  to  enjoy  many 
things  which  she  had  often  told  them 
about. 

In  addition  to  the  program  of  intel- 
lectual attainment,  of  self  arovernment. 
of  mature  appreciation,  and  of  prac- 
tical social  service,  Dean  Voigt  believed 
wholesome  fun  and  recreation  to  be 
a  necessary  part  of  a  well-rounded  col- 
lege life. 

Interest  in   Sports 

As  an  undergraduate  student  at  the 
Unixeisity  of  Illinois,  she  played  bas- 
ketball long  enough  to  break  several 
bones.  C!ontinucd  interest  in  good 
games  was  evident  when  she  came  to 
Ohio  University,  for  she  seldom  missed 
a  home  football  game  and  her  cheering 
could  be  heard  at  most  of  the  basket- 
ball games.  She  was  proud  to  wear  the 


VOIGT   HALL   DEDICATION 


Flying  O  which  the  WAA  girls  award- 
ed her. 

One  of  her  firm  beliefs  was  that  large 
groups  of  girls  should  participate  in 
good  times  together.  During  her  early 
years  in  Athens,  before  life  became  so 
complex,  she  was  ready  many  Saturday 
mornings  at  7:00  A.M.  to  hike  with 
her  girls  over  the  hills  of  Athens 
County.  Singing  as  they  hiked,  they 
stopped  at  noon  to  build  a  campfire 
and  eat  their  lunch,  and  then,  after 
good  talk,  in  the  late  afternoon,  they 
woidd  retiu-n  home,  tired  in  body  but 
refreshed  in  spirit. 

It  was  not  alone  to  the  girls  that 
she  gave  advice  and  suggestions  but 
to  the  men  of  the  campus  as  well.  Din- 
ing the  first  half  of  her  term  as  dean 
of  women,  there  \\as  no  dean  of  men — 
so  that  she  was  really  the  dean  of 
students.  Many  times  uni\ersity  men 
students  waited  outside  her  door  for 
help  for  their  problems  or  suggestions 
for  their  parties  or  just  a  chance  to 
talk  to  her. 

Her  dream  for  graduates  who  went 
out  from  Ohio  Uni\ersity  was  that  they 
misht    ha\e    a   \ision    far   wider    than 


any  local  community  where  they  would 
live.  E\en  before  the  days  when  many 
people  thought  of  one  world  and  the 
international  implications  that  went 
with  it,  she  was  talking  about  inter- 
national understanding. 

She  went  to  several  Cause  and  Cure 
ot  War  Conferences;  she  favored  in- 
ternational fellowshij^s  for  foreign  stu- 
dents, a  long  time  before  such  fellow- 
ships were  available;  she  was  one  of 
the  promoters  of  the  million  dollar 
.AAUW  fellowship  fund,  now  operating 
to  its  capacity;  she  traveled  in  Europe 
with  a  study  seminar,  whose  purpose 
was  a  better  understanding  of  foreign 
governments  and  their  peoples.  .She 
always  brought  the  results  of  her  find- 
ings to  the  campus  so  that  all  the 
students  might  profit  from  her  knowl- 
edge. Sometimes  her  findings  appeared 
in  print  in  journals  and  as  chapters 
in  books  of  special  interest  to  deans 
of  women. 

Speaker  and   Counselor 

Naturally  such  a  dean  of  women  was 
known  on  other  campuses.  She  was 
sought  after  by  student  groups  every- 
where. From  Vassar  in  the  East  to 
Stanford  in  the  West,  she  spoke  to 
student  groups  of  her  work,  of  her 
beliefs,  and  of  her  dreams.  At  summer 
conferences  she  was  not  only  a  speaker 
but  a  counselor.  I  reinember  one  story 
which  she  told  about  a  session  on 
"AVhat  are  My  Problems?"  After  the 
meeting  one  girl  asked  for  a  conference, 
and  timidly  said  to  Dean  Voigt.  "Am  I 
queer?  I  don't  seem  at  the  moment 
to  have  any  probleins."  The  Dean 
answered:  "My  dear,  what  a  normal 
girl  you  are!  I  wish  their  were  more 
like  you." 

I  said  in  the  beginning  that  hers 
was  a  unique  personality.  The  various 


Page  twentysix 


The    Ohio    Alumnus 


1932 

Dr.  John  B.  Holden,  assistant  professor 
of  continuing  education  at  Michigan  State 
University,  has  Veceived  an  annual  merit  a- 
ward  for  distinguished  service  oflfered  by  the 
Xational  .Association  of  Public  School  .Adult 
Educators.  Dr.  Holden.  who  is  novf  serving 
as  president  of  the  .-\dult  Education  .Associ- 
ation of  Michigan,  received  the  national 
award  for  "the  impetus,  direction,  and 
meaning  he  has  given  the  adult  education 
movement  not  only  in  Michigan,  but  in  the 
nation  as  well."  The  citation  explains  fur- 
ther that  "In  his  position  as  university  con- 
sultant in  adult  education,  Dr.  Holden  has 
])rovided  directors  in  Michigan  in  the  organ- 
ization and  impro\enicnt  of  their  programs 
and  in  developing  the  cooperative  com- 
munity approach  to  the  educational  prob- 
lems of  individuals  and  groups.  "  Formerly 
on  the  faculty  of  Hamilton  (Ohio)  High 
School,  Dr.  Holden  has  been  at  Michigan 
State  since  1950.  He  has  served  as  national 
chairman  for  public  relations  and  member- 
ship of  the  .Adult  Education  .Association  of 
the  U.  S.  A.,  and  chairman  of  the  Michigan 
.Action  Committee  for  .Adult  Education. 


facets  of  hcf  pcisonality  as  illustiated 
by  her  working  techniques  as  dean  of 
women  alone  do  not  completely  express 
the  woman  herself.  One  had  to  see  her 
in  action  to  a]3]ireciate  fidly  what  she 
was. 

Her  name  Imia  means  strength. 
Her  magnificent  physique  made  this 
name  appropriate.  As  she  came  out 
on  a  platform,  her  audience  instincti\o- 
ly  felt  her  strength  and  assurance,  be- 
cause everyone  knew  that  she  would 
speak  simply  and  truly,  that  she  woidd 
transfer   her   sound    judgments    to    all. 

A   contagious   Sincerity 

There  was  a  buoyancy — a  joyous 
lilt  and  a  vibrancy  in  her  low-pitched 
voice,  and  above  all  a  sincerity  which 
was  contagious.  The  sttidents  used  to 
say,  ''Whenever  she  comes  into  a  meet- 
ing, we  know  that  it  will  turn  out  the 
way  it  should  whether  it's  always  the 
way  we  want  it  to  or  not."  She  was 
so  honest  that  no  one  could  doubt  her 
statements.  Her  physical  presence  con- 
firmed the  qualities  she  stood  for. 

I  believe  that  a  personal  reference 
to  a  conversation  I  had  with  her  near 
the  end  of  her  life  will  make  you  all 
very  happy  that  we  have  a  Voigt  Hall. 
In  the  vei7  early  spring  of  1953  I  was 
\isiting  her  in  her  hospital  room  one 
day.  I  told  her  that  soon  several  houses 
on  College  Street  would  be  torn  down 
so  that  a  beautiful  new  woman's  dormi- 
tory could  be  built  next  to  Howard 
Hall.  (At  that  time  no  name  for  the 
hall  had  been  agreed  upon.)  She  smiled 
and  said  to  me,  "That's  one  of  my 
dreams  come  true" — and  then  a  bit 
later,  she  said  rather  wistfully,  "I  wish 
they'd  name  the  hall  for  me."  I  like 
to  think  that  now  she  knows  that  we 
have  a  Voigt  Hall,  and  that  her  dreain 
has  come  true. 


1933 

Che.ster  a.  En  low,  executive  head  of 
schools  at  Ravenna,  Ohio,  was  among  those 
inducted  into  the  Ohio  Bar  Association  in 
Cleveland  last  month.  He  studied  law  at 
.Akron  Law  School. 

1934 

Clyde  .A.  Voris  is  manager  of  employee 
relations.  .Albens  Division.  Colonial  Stores, 
Inc.,  Cincinnati. 

M.^RViN  R.  Barker  recently  resigned  as 
supervisor  of  the  disability  determination 
section  of  the  West  Virginia  Rehabilitation 
Division,  to  join  the  staff  of  the  Richmond 
Professional  Institute  of  the  College  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary.  He  will  be  an  associate  pro- 
fessor of  rehabilitation  counseling. 

Robert  J.  Logan  is  territorial  manager 
of  the  Seaboard  Finance  Company  in  Penn- 
sylvania. 

1935 

Joe  Glander  is  head  track  coach  and 
an  associate  professor  of  physical  education 
at  the  Uni\ersity  of  Idaho,  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Ruth  Burden,  is  on  the  statT  of 
the  registrar's  office  there.  She  ser\es  as  the 
university  statistician.  The  Glanders  are  a 
real  "intercollegiate  family."  Mrs.  Glander, 
who  attended  OU  for  three  years,  grad- 
uated from  Bowling  Green  LIniversity.  The 
couples  oldest  daughter,  Joan,  is  the  wife  of 
a  student  at  Oxford,  England.  Their  son. 
David,  was  a  member  of  the  .All  .American 
swimming  team  in  1954  and  is  now  swim- 
ming coach  at  the  L'niversity  of  Wyoming. 
Daughter  Judy,  yoimgest  of  their  three  chil- 
dren, is  a  sophomore  in  high  school.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Glander  plan  to  spend  the  summer  in 
England    \isiting    their   daughter   Joan. 

Bernard  Berens  is  parole  oflficer  for  the 
Boys  Industrial  School,  Lancaster. 

Katherine  Boyd  Shurtleff  (Mrs. 
Wade  E.).  Ohio  president  of  the  .American 
Association  of  LTniversity  Women,  spoke  at 
the  fifth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the 
Chillicothe  AAUW  branch  on  March  22. 

1936 

Dr.  Martin  C.  Londergan  has  been  ad- 
vanced to  sales  promotion  manager  of  the 
Pigments  Division  of  E.  I.  du  Pont  de 
Nemours  &  Company,  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware. 

1937 

John  L.  Baum  was  awarded  the  M.S. 
degree  at  March  16  commencement  exer- 
cises of  Ohio  State  L'niversity. 

1938 

Paul  K,  Hudson,  assistant  professor  of 
electrical  engineering  at  the  LIniversity  of 
Illinois,  is  writing  a  book  about  college 
life,  which  is  intended  for  high  school  seniors 
considering  higher  education. 

The  Rev.  John  W.  Meister,  pastor  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Fort 
Wayne.  Indiana,  was  guest  speaker  at  the 
annual  Holy  Week  services  in  Zanesville 
recently. 

1939 

William  F.  Luthy  is  plant  accountant 
for  the  Metal  Powder  Division  of  the  Re- 
public Steel  Corporation,  Toledo.  He  has 
been  with   Republic   Steel   since   graduation. 


BAND  DIRECTOR  Chorles  Minclli  and  Richard 
C.  Groves.  '41,  chat  during  intermission  of  the 
U.S.  Navy  Bond  Concert  held  recently  in 
Memorial  Auditorium.  Groves,  who  was  a 
member  of  the  OU  concert  bond  in  1941,  has 
been  in  the  Navy  since  leaving  the  University. 
He    has   been   in   the   famed   bond   lor   10  years. 


and  has  held  his  present  position  since 
1954.  In  September  of  1954  he  received  the 
MB.A  degree  from  Western  Reserve  Univer- 
sity. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Luthy  ha\e  a  10-year-old 
daughter. 

Kenneth  D.  Cunningham  is  assistant 
district  engineer  for  the  U.  S.  Steel  Cor- 
poration's American  Brid.ge  •  Division.  His 
home  is  in  Aliquippa,  Pennsylvania. 

William  J.  Watterson,  former  assistant 
superintendent  of  the  building  department 
of  Beverly  Hills,  California,  has  been 
named  superintendent  of  the  Burbank  build- 
ing department.  .A  civil  engineer,  Mr.  Wat- 
terson also  has  experience  with  the  Texas 
and  California  highway  departments.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Watterson  have  a  three-year-old 
son. 

.Albert  W.  Klohs  is  a  rating  examiner 
for  the  Sixth  U.  S.  Civil  Service  Region, 
Cincinnati. 


1940 

R.  H.  Enoelman  has  been  in  Belgium 
since  the  middle  of  October  as  resident 
engineer  for  a  new  synthetic  detergent 
(Tide-Daz-Dreft)  factory  being  built  for 
Procter  and  Gamble.  His  wife  and  three 
children  are  with  him.  The  Engelmans  plan 
to  return  to  their  home  in  Cincinnati  this 
summer. 

James  W.  Bartlett,  Jr.  was  recently 
made  regional  manager  of  the  Philip  Carey 
Manufacturing  Company,  Cincinnati.  He  is 
in  charge  of  sales  offices  in  seven  districts, 
Chicago,  Detroit,  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  At- 
lanta,  Pittsburgh,   and   Indianapolis. 

1941 

Sam  K.  Robinson,  Jr.  has  been  appointed 
associate  agent  of  the  Handrahan  Insurance 
Agency  in  Columbus.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  insurance  business  for  the 
past  10  years. 


May,     1956 


Page  twenty-seven 


I  llo.MA>    A.    Kl,l>l  R,       ill 


AN  OHIO  UNIVERSITY 
aluiniiiis,  associated  with  the 
General  Electric  Coiii])any  since 
his  graduation  in  1930,  has  played 
an  important  part  in  the  dexelop- 
nient  of  many  electronic  innova- 
tions in  the  past  decade. 

As  manager  of  design  engi- 
neering from  1953  to  1955. 
Thomas  A.  Elder  headed  a  group 
having  responsibility  for  klystons. 
traveling  wave  tubes,  magnetrons, 
vacuum  rectifiers,  small  micro- 
wave tubes,  and  gas  switching 
tubes. 

In  A]3ril.  1955,  he  was  ap- 
]3ointed  manager  of  microwave 
tube  product  engineering. 

Last  month  the  company  an- 
nounced the  promotion  of  Mr. 
Elder  to  consulting  engineer  in 
the  engineering  section  of  the 
power  tube  sub-department.  In 
his  new  position,  he  will  assist 
management  in  the  technical 
evaluation  of  programs  in  the 
power  tube  field  and  act  as  a 
liason  with  various  laboratories 
working  in  tiiis  field. 

While  sei'\ing  as  a  design  engi- 
neer in  1936,  Mr.  Elder  was  a 
joint  recipient  of  the  Charles 
E.  Cloffin  certificate  of  merit 
in  recognition  of  outstanding 
achievement  in  pioneering  and 
developing  the  steel  envelope  for 
thyratrons  and  phanotrons. 

He  has  been  granted  nine  U.  S. 
patents  on  tubes  for  industrial, 
radio,  and  television  applications, 
several  of  which  were  filed  in 
foreign  countries. 


Robert  B.  Cook  is  an  accountant  for  the 
Ohio  Consolidated  Telephone  Company. 
Portsmouth. 

John  L.  Boros,  assistant  to  the  vice 
president  of  the  Sohio  Petroleum  Company. 
St.  Louis,  has  been  promoted  to  colonel  in 
the  United  States  .\rmy  Reserve.  He  com- 
mands the  34 1  St  Transportation  Group,  an 
.\rmy  Reserve  unit  sponsored  by  the  St. 
Louis  Traffic  Club. 

1942 

X'iRGiMA  FiNEFROCK  KiRBV  (Mrs.  Wal- 
lace C),  physical  education  teacher  at 
Cleveland's  John  Simpson  Junior  High 
School,  is  one  of  16  women  named  to  mem- 
bership on  the  Women's  Track  and  Field 
Committee  for  the  1959  Pan-American 
Games  in  Cleveland. 

1943 

Dr.  John  J.  P'ritz.  Toledo  dentist,  was 
recently  appointed  organist  at  the  First 
L'nitarian  Church  in  that  city. 

C.APT.  RicH.\RD  O.  Ransbottom,  LIS.'\F 
Korean  War  jet  ace.  was  featured  in  a  full 
p.ige  advertisement  in  the  March  26  issue 
of  Titne  Magazine.  In  the  color  ad,  he  is 
pictured  boarding  his  plane,  the  first  all- 
magnesium  jet  fighter  made,  and  carrying 
luggage  of  the  same  material.  The  ad  also 
appeared  in  other  national  magazines. 

1944 

Richard  J.  McCaffertv,  an  aeronau- 
tical research  scientist  at  the  Lewis  Flight 
Propulsion  Laboratory  of  the  National  -Ad- 
visory Committee  for  Aeronautics.  Cleve- 
land, presented  a  technical  paper  at  the 
spring  meeting  of  the  .American  Chemical 
Society  in  Dallas,  Texas,  April  10.  The  title 
of  his  paper  was  "Literature  Review  of 
Combustion  in  .Aviation  Gas  Turbine  En- 
gines." 

Jack  C;.  Biddison,  Columbus,  is  resident 
inspector  for  the  Burgess  and  Niple  Con- 
sulting Engineers  on  the  core  drilling  at 
Strouds   Run   Dam   near  .Athens. 

Taimi  Maria  Ranta  is  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  education  and  director  of  the  ele- 
mentary education  program  at  Hamline 
University  in  St.   Paul. 

1945 

Herbert  Schroeder  has  joined  the  chem- 
ical section  of  the  Babcock  and  Wilcox  Re- 
search Center,  Alliance,  Ohio. 

1947 

David  Friedman,  an  accountant  for  the 
.\lex  Fodor  Realty  Company,  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Elaine  Goldring.  plan  to  have 
.1  new  home  built  in  Beachwood  Village. 
Ohio,  by  September.  They  are  also  re- 
modeling a  cottage  to  spend  their  summers 
at  .Avon  Lake.  Mrs.  Friedman  is  active  in 
the  .Avon  Lake  Players,  a  community  theatre 
group  there. 

Robert  Brown  is  secretary-treasurer  of 
Wholesome  Dairy.  Inc.,  of  El  Paso.  Texas. 
The  large  dairy  has  expanded  several  times, 
and  recently  built  a  dair\'  barn  in  which  it 
is  possible  to  milk  180  cows  at  one  time.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Brown  live  in  El  Paso  and  have 
three  children,  Howard,  7,  .Arlene,  6,  and 
Janice,  2. 

Richard  B.  Lamond  ha^  been  named 
executive  director  of  the  Jackson,  Michigan. 
Community  Chest. 


.Ag.nes  Severixi  Pe.sta  (Mrs.  Paul  E.) 
teaches  art  in  Cove  Junior  High  School  in 
Weirlon.  West  Virginia.  She  previously 
taught  at  Jefferson  Union  _High  School  in 
Richmond.  Ohio,  for  three  years.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Pesta  live  in  Steubenville. 


^euHhH 


June  8-10 


Dorothy  Hainer  Woldorf  (Mrs.  .Arthur 
F.)  and  her  husband  have  gone  to  El  Sal- 
vador in  Central  .America  for  a  year.  They 
are  engaged  in  volunteer  work  with  an 
.American  Friends  (Quaker)  Service  Com- 
mittee workcamp,  in  a  small  primitive  vill- 
age in  the  eastern  part  of  El  Salvador.  The 

EDWARD  C.  BIRKNER,  '47,  MS  '48.  has  re- 
signed his  position  OS  associate  editor  of 
House  and  Home  Magazine  to  become  vice 
president  of  the  School  Development  Corpora- 
tion, Toledo.  Mr.  Birliner,  whose  home  is  in 
IrvIngton-on-Hudson,  New  York,  is  in  charge  of 
public  relations  and  selecting  the  most  likely 
sites    for    large    scale    residential    development. 


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area  was  severely  hit  by  a  two-day  earth- 
quake in  1951,  and  reconstruction  has  been 
going  on  ever  since,  under  the  direction  of  a 
Salvadorean  government  administration.  The 
Woldorfs  work  in  cooperation  with  this 
agency,  although  their  activities  are  more  on 
the  social  and  educational  lc\el  than  in  ma- 
terial reconstruction. 


1949 

Thomas  W.  Grove  is  plant  engineer  in 
charge  of  all  maintenance  and  engineering 
at  the  Flannery  Manufacturing  Company 
and  its  subsidiary,  the  Fort  Pitt  Manufac- 
turing Company.  Pittsburgh.  Flannery 
manufactures  stampings  and  small  assem- 
blies for  the  auto  industry,  forgings  for  the 
railroads,  and  small  arms  for  rifle  com- 
panies. .\t  the  Fort  Pitt  plant  they  manu- 
facture spring  wire  imits  for  mattresses  and 
for  automobile  seats. 

Donald  J.  Fasick  is  a  freight  salesman 
for  the  Suburban  Motor  Freight  company 
in  Dayton. 

Jack  L.  Moore,  assistant  district  manager 
of  the  Ohio  Consolidated  Telephone  Com- 
pany, Portsmouth,  was  recently  named 
"Young  Man  of  the  Year"  in   that  city. 

James  R.  .Arnold,  a  member  of  the  Ohio 
Power  Company's  public  relations  depart- 
ment at  Canton,  has  been  promoted  to  as- 
sistant editor  of  the  company's  employee 
publication,  the  Ohio  Power  Review.  Before 
joining  the  company  two  years  ago,  Mr. 
.\rnold  was  managing  editor  of  the  Logan 
Daily  News. 


Marian^  Jacquie,  Clark,  and  Boh  Schknz 


For  the  past  year  Robert  F. 
Schenz,  '44,  has  been  coordinating 
a  project  of  the  National  Association 
of  Public  School  Adult  Education, 
with  the  goal  of  developing  a 
"Guide  for  Administrators  and 
Teachers"  in  public  school  adult 
education. 

This  month  the  book,  belie\ed  to 
be  a  "first"  in  its  field  nationally, 
is  going  to  press. 

As  principal  (director)   of  Jordan 


Adult  School  in  Los  Angeles.  Cali- 
fornia, Bob  Schenz  is  one  of  the  25 
persons  ser\ing  more  than  200,000 
adults  in  the  city's  program  of  adult 
education. 

This  year  California  is  celebrating 
100  years  of  organized  adult  edu- 
cation. The  first  class  was  held  in 
San  Francisco  in   1856. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schenz  (Marian 
Abram,  '45 )  have  two  children, 
Jacciuie  and   Clark. 


Martin  P.  Joyce  has  been  appointed  as- 
sistant police  prosecutor  for  the  city  of 
^'oungstown.  .\t  the  time  of  his  appointment 
in  March,  he  was  handling  an  appeal  on 
behalf  of  a  inan  convicted  on  a  state  num- 
bers law  violation,  but  withdrew  from  the 
case  when  he  accepted  the  new  position. 

1950 

Robert  J.  Stirling  is  an  adjuster  for  the 
National  City  Bank.  Cleveland.  He  reports 
that  he  enjoys  monthly  luncheons  with  for- 
mer classmates  Willard  Gray,  Richard 
TiROHN,  '54.  Ted  Havel,  '53,  Dick  Spade- 
man, '51,  Bill  Lauer,  "51,  and  Harry 
Kompa,  '51. 

Dr.  Richard  Murie,  who  is  with  the 
Monsanto  Chemical  Company,  Nitro,  West 
Virginia,  was  one  of  three  judges  for  the 
third  annual  West  Virginia  state  science  fair 
at  West  Virginia  State  College  last  month. 

Ralph  L.  Hughes  is  with  the  Invest- 
ment Department  of  the  Banc  Ohio  Corpor- 
ation, Columbus.  He  also  does  commercials 
for  the  television  show  sponsored  by  the 
Ohio  National  Bank,  and  plans  to  complete 
his  graduate  studies  with  the  .American  In- 
stitute of  Banking  this  month. 

Stephen  Armstrong  was  one  of  two 
Wright-Patterson  .Air  Force  Base  men  who 
won  the  .Air  Material  Command's  January 
"Buy  of  the  Month"  award.  The  pair  were 
commended  for  negotiating  a  procurement 
contract  in  a  limited  time,  thereby  establish- 
ing an  improved  deliveiy  schedule.  It  in- 
\'olved  rental  of  \'ital  communications 
facilities. 

Verne  A.  Sechler  is  a  system  power 
engineer  with  the  Ohio  Power  Company, 
Canton. 


1951 

First  Lt.  Robert  Greer  has  been  with 
the  39th  Infantry  Regiment  of  the  9th 
.Army  Division  in  Nurnberg,  Germany,  since 
November  of  1954.  Mrs.  Greer,  the  former 
Marilyn  Simons,  '50,  has  been  with  him  in 
that  country  for  one  year,  and  is  a  civil  ser- 
vice employee  at  Army  headquarters  in 
Nurnberg.  The  Greers  expect  to  return  to 
this  country  in  July. 

Alan  E.  Himelick,  formerly  with  Tec- 
tum, in  Newark,  Ohio,  has  joined   the  Gris- 

E.  N.  PHILLIPS.  '51,  has  been  named  district 
sales  manager  in  the  western  region  of  the 
General  Electric  Tube  Department's  equipment 
sales  organization.   His  office   is  in   Los  Angeles. 


wold-Eshleman   Company.    Cleveland,   as   an 
account  executive. 

Charles  B.  Chastain  and  Max  W. 
Evans  received  their  masters  degrees  at 
March  commencement  exercises  of  Ohio 
State  University. 

1952 

First  Lt.  Carl  R.  Giese  is  an  instruc- 
tor at  Ellington  .Air  Force  Base,  Texas. 

Jo  Elizabeth  Downer,  who  worked  as  a 
secretary  for  the  Michigan  Employment  Se- 
curity Commission  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
received  an  appointment  to  the  executive 
position  of  employment  and  claims  inter- 
viewer last  September.  She  was  one  of  20 
appointed  to  similar  positions  on  the  basis 
of  a  test  given  to  2000  persons.  Since  that 
time  she  has  recei\'ed  a  further  promotion 
to  testing  administrator  in  the  Commission's 
commercial  and  professional  office  in  De- 
troit. Miss  Downer  and  her  staflf  give  apti- 
tude tests,  developing  the  batteries  through 
job  analysis. 

J.  Bennett  Coy  has  been  appointed  exec- 
utive secretary  of  the  Foreman's  Club  of 
Dayton.  He  has  been  personnel  manager  at 
the  Joyce-Cridland  Company  since  1954, 
and  has  also  worked  as  an  industrial  engi- 
neering trainee  at  the  Gardner  Board  and 
Carton  Company  in  Middletown. 

John  W.  Beardmore  is  working  toward 
the  M.S.  degree  in  mechanical  engineering 
at  Ohio  State  University,  under  a  U.  S. 
Steel  Fellowship.  He  expects  to  receive  the 
degree  in  August. 

Charles  "Pete"  Norman  is  credit  man- 
ager of  the  Las  Vegas,  Nevada  Branch  of 
the  Sherwin   Williams   Paint  Company. 


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1953 

Westox  Stiegelmeif.r  is  a  cost  analyst 
in  the  product  control  section,  comptroller's 
staff,  of  the  Chrysler  Corporation,  Detroit. 

Norma'  McCallv  Kipp  (Mrs.  Robert) 
has  joined  the  society  staff  of  the  Dayton 
Daily  Neifs. 

Charles  L.  King,  released  from  active 
duty  with  the  Air  Force  early  this  year,  has 
returned  to  work  with  the  South  Bend 
Tackle  Company,  and  was  appointed  pro- 
duction scheduling  supervisor  at  the  com- 
pany's Macjuoketa,  Iowa,  plant  in  March. 

Marilyn  Foxen.  who  received  the  mas- 
ter's degree  in  religious  education  from  Co- 
lumbia University,  is  religious  advisor  at  St. 
John's  Episcopal  Clhurch  in  Yonkers,  New 
York. 

Lt.  Donald  Henshaw  returned  to  the 
U.  S.  in  March,  after  serving  with  the  Air 
Force  on  Okinawa  for  19  months,  and  re- 
ceived his  discharge  from  active  service 
April   14. 

1954 

Dave  Arcangel  is  operating  a  photo 
studio  at  17221  Lorain  .■Avenue,  Cleveland. 
Mrs.  .Arcangel  is  the  former  Marcia  Pollock, 
'53. 

Douglas  K.  Lindsley  is  serving  with  the 
Army  at  Braconne,  France.  He  has  been 
there  since  last  July  and  expects  to  return 
this   fall. 

Myron  D.  Henry  has  been  transferred 
by  the  Army  from  Fort  Polk,  Louisiana,  to 
the  Army  Home  Town  News  Center  in 
Kansas  City,  where  he  is  a  member  of  the 
editorial   staff'. 

PvT,  Charles  M.  Frank  participated 
in  a  recent  cold  weather  training  exercise 
conducted  by  the  9th  Infantry  Division  in 
Germany.  He  has  been  in  Europe  since 
February. 

Charles  L.  Gille  is  assistant  engineer 
for    the    Ohio    Bell    Telephone    Company's 

ROBERT  J.  POTTS,  '52  has  been  oppointed  to 
the  sales  staff  of  Wyeth  Laboratories,  Phila- 
delphia pharmaceutical  concern.  Formerly 
owner  ol  Town  and  Country  Builders  in 
Gahanno,  Ohio,  he  will  hove  his  new  head- 
quarters  with    Wyeth    In   the    city    of   Zanesville. 


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JAMES  B.  BAILEY,  '53,  has  been  discharged 
from  the  Army  and  is  now  enrolled  at  the 
Pittsburgh-Zenia  Seminary,  Pittsburgh,  Penn- 
sylvania   where    he    is   studying    for   the    ministry. 


building  engineering  department,  Columbus. 
Mrs.  Gille  is  the  former  Marilyn  .Mtin^ui, 
'56, 

1955 

Lt,  Gerald  Nagy  has  been  made  chief 
of  the  Administrative  Branch  Office  in 
Giessen,   Geniiany, 

Lt,  David  M.  Lodde,  who  completed  his 
Quartermaster  School  training  at  Ft.  Lee. 
Virginia,  in  February,  has  been  assigned 
to  a  quartermaster  ,  de[50t  near  Bordeaux, 
France. 

Harry  Fierbaugh  is  director  of  music 
at  Texarkana  College.  Recently  he  directed 
a  200-voice  teen-age  chorus  through  a  music 
festival   at   the   college. 

PvT.  Ray-  .Abraham  has  been  named 
company  clerk  of  the  237th  Engineering 
Battalion  in  Munich,  Germany.  His  work 
includes  giving  weekly  classes  on  news, 
weather,  sports,  and  military  topics;  hand- 
ling USAFI  information,  writing  articles, 
and  doing  cartoons  for  an  engineering  news- 
letter. 

EvANGELOs  .K.  KoFou  is  working  for 
the  Greek  Embassy  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
and  doing  graduate  work  at  Georgetown 
University. 

Michael  G.  Ambrose  teaches  at  Empire 
Junior   High   School   in   Cleveland. 

1956 

Lawrence  C.  Long  is  a  student  engineer 
for  the  Babcock  and  Wilco.x  Company  in 
.•\u.gusta,    Georgia. 

Mary  Jane  Carter  Bartlett  (Mrs. 
Louis)  works  on  an  employment  publication 
for  the  American  Psychological  Association 
in  Washington,   D,   C. 

Pvt.  William  K.  Mason  is  stationed 
with  the  .'Krmy  at  Ft.  Leonard  Wood, 
Missouri. 


Mar'i-  Jane  Carter,  '56,  Pittsburgh,  to 
Louis  S,  Bartlett,  '57,  Athens,  March  10. 

Jane  E,  Jackson,  '53.  Chagrin  Falls,  to 
P.uil   S.   Jackson,   Houston,   Texas,   February 

4. 

Dorothy  Linderman,  Massilon,  to  George 
Cassudakis,  "50,  Warren,  March  25.  .\t 
home:    937    Hazelwood,    Warren. 

Phyllis  J.  Sutherin,  Toronto,  to  Lt, 
Robert    Karaffa.    '55,    Toronto,    February 

28. 

,\nne  M.  Gray,  Big  Spring,  Texas,  to  Lt. 
James  D.  Gatts,  '54,  Oakwood  Village, 
February    18. 

Jean  Press.  Cleveland  Heights,  to  Alan 
I.  Miller,  '58,  March  25.  At  home:  2733 
Hampshire    Rd.,    Cleveland    Heights. 

Beverly  Ann  Trithart,  '57,  Peoria,  111., 
to  Doyle  H.  Class,  Pekin,  111.,  graduate 
of  the  University  of  Illinois,  March  18. 
.\t   home:    110   Flora   .\ve..    Peoria,    111. 

Virginia  Helm,  '55,  Park\iew  \'illage,  to 
Kenneth  J.  Mclnerney,  Baldwin  Wallace 
student,  .\ug,  21,  1955.  .''it  home:  Sleepy 
Hollow  Rd.,  Brunswick. 

Shirle-s-  J.  Todd,  '54,  Blue  Ash,  to  Lt, 
WiLLARD  L.  Portteus,  Jr.,  '53,  Kenwood, 
March   1  7. 

Marilyn  Wexler,  '57.  Lf  n  i  v  e  r  s  i  t  y 
Heights,  to  Mark  H.  Isler,  Cleveland 
Heights,  March  11.  At  home:  2079  Belvoir 
Blvd.    S.    E,,    Cleveland. 

Elaine  S.  Edwards,  '57,  Parma,  to  Clyde 
L,   Bennett,  Uhrichsville,   March    17. 


Sirtks— 


Marsh  Cynthia  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennett 
Hassink  (Mildred  L.  Pugh,  '49),  Cleve- 
land   Heights,    February    24. 

LT,  DONALD  P.  HEPP,  '55,  recently  was 
graduated  from  the  Infantry  School's  basic 
Infantry    officers    course    at    Fort    Benning,    Ga. 


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The     Ohio    Alumnus 


BROWN-HAIRED,    2o-ycar- 


A 

-*-   *-  (lid    Ohio    Unix'ersity    alumnus 

enjoys  tellina,  stories  of  a  people  with 
folk  songs  as  he  strums  a  baritone 
ukulele. 

Pv  t.  Da\c  liownian  was  intro- 
duced to  music  as  a  youth  in  Can- 
ton, Ohio.  Dave  said  his  father 
worked  his  way  through  college 
playing  a  banjo  in  bands  on  cam- 
pus. Mr.  Bowman  first  showed  his 
son  the  chords  on  a  banjo. 

Purchasing  a  tenor  guitar  at  col- 
lege. Da\e  grew  interested  in  folk 
music  through  his  history  courses. 

"A  folk  song  tells  a  story  about 
tile  lives  and  happenings  of  people," 
he  said.  "Many  of  these  songs  have- 
n't been  published,  but  they  are 
handed  down  from  one  generation 
to  the  next. 

"I  learned  talking  to  people  in 
the  Ohio  hill  countiy  that  a  song 
may  be  changed  slightly  by  singers 
on  the  other  side  of  a  mountain." 

The  young  singer,  who  is  a  clerk 
with  G-1  section  at  Fort  Jackson, 
South  Carolina,  has  traced  many 
folk  songs  to  their  origins.  "Mr. 
Froggie  Went  a'  Courtin',"  for  ex- 
ample, came  from  a  1549  play  in 
England. 

Recently  Dave  sang  on  Andy 
Scott's  Penthouse  Party  over  Radio 
Station  \VMSC.    He  also  sang  folk 


Reprinted  from  the 
Fort  Jackson  Journal 


U.     S.     ARMY   PHOTO 

PvT.  Dave  Bowman,  '55 


mnnbers  on  the  show  a  few  weeks 
earlier. 

In  college  he  sang  on  a  weekly 
radio  program,  rendering  a  variety 
of  folk  tunes  and  relating  back- 
grounds on  some  of  them. 

"I  like  folk  singing,"  he  said,  "and 
I  want  other  people  to  understand 


the  ditl'erence  between  it  and  hill- 
billy songs." 

The  Ohio  singer  pointed  out  that 
in  folk  songs,  the  words  are  more 
im])ortant  than  in  popular  and 
rhythm  and  blues  types.  He  said  the 
audience  must  listen  closely  to  hear 
the  whole  story  which  he  tells  in 
song. 

"Generally  the  people  who  like 
classical  music  will  like  folk  songs, 
too,"  he  said.  "One  reason  is  that 
folk  singing  is  a  definite  type  and 
lies  in  a  class  of  its  own." 

A  tiTje  folk  singer  puts  expression 
into  the  song,  according  to  Dave, 
and  a  listener  feels  as  if  the  singer 
has  lived  the  experience  in  the  song- 
story. 

Dave,  who  played  tennis  at  Ohio 
Uni\ersity,  also  enjoys  reading  his- 
torical works.  His  favorite  period  is 
the  time  of  Refonnation  in  English 
history. 

On  his  first  radio  show  with  Scott, 
he  sang  "Barbara  Allen"  and  "Bon- 
nie Wee  Lassie"  along  with  old 
mmibers  he  enjoys. 

Da\e  said  he  might  try  to  sing 
folk  songs  professionally,  if  a  good 
break  presents  itself  after  he  is  sep- 
arated from  the  Army. 

His  audience  will  hear  stories 
from  a  yoimg  artist  who  surely 
knows  how  to  spin  a  yarn  in  song. 


Sue  Ellen  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jonathan 
Oakley  (Ellen  Guzlev,  '54),  Cleveland, 
April    12. 

Timothy  Patrick  to  Robert  Quayle,  '52, 
and  Mrs.  Quayle  (Joanne  Frogale,  '52), 
Fairborn,   Sept.    13,    1955. 

LuAnn  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delbert  S.  Van 
Reeth  (Betty  Allen,  '42),  Norwick, 
March   4. 

Joe  to  John  Ward,  '52,  and  Mrs.  Ward. 
Nelsonvillc,    March    25. 

Deborah  Lynn  to  Goff  R.  Dunfee,  '51, 
and  Mrs.  Dunfee  (Marlene  Gregorious, 
'52),  January   12. 

Charles  Vincent  to  Vincent  C.  Tallev, 
'50.  and  Mrs.  Tallcy,  (Phyllis  Patterson, 
'50),  Scotia,  X.  v.,  Dec  7,   1955. 

Jessica  Lynn  to  Richard  Mackinnon, 
'49,  and  Mrs.  Mackinnon  (Joan  Vance, 
'52),    Coshocton.    ,\pril    1. 

Deborah  .Ann  to  Samuel  R.  Beckley, 
'53,  and  Mrs.  Beckley  (Annabelle  Bomeli, 
'53),  Shelby,  Nov.  7,   1955. 

Pamela  Sue  to  .\lan  R.  Landy,  '51.  and 
Mrs.  Landy  (Ina  Barkan,  '52),  Beach- 
wood  Village,  Aug.  30,   1955. 

Linda  Sue  to  Paul  Wanstreet,  '54, 
and  Mrs.  Wanstreet  (Margaret  Killian, 
'54),  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  Dec.  27,   1955. 

Nancy  .Ann  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  O. 
Redd,  (Betty  McCroba,  '47),  Worthing- 
ton,   March  29. 


.Ann  Cheryl  to  Richard  J.  Colvin,  '50, 
and  Mrs.  Colvin  (Jean  Christman,  '50), 
Parma,  March  8. 

Connie  Lee  to  Lewis  E.  Koehler,  '44. 
and  Mrs.  Koehler,  Bryan,  Dec.   14,   1955. 

.Ann  Miner  to  Harry  K.  Millhoff,  '48, 
and  Mrs.  Millhoff  (Ruth  Hacker,  '47), 
Cleveland,    March    20. 

Gary  Kenneth  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack 
Marquardt  (Marilyn  Miars,  '52),  Rocky 
River,   February   10. 

Mark  .Andrew  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  .A. 
Freede  (Eileen  Butera,  '51),  Warren, 
Dec.  26,  1955. 

Linda  Jo  to  Charles  Welton,  '52,  and 
Mrs.  Welton  (Joan  Ruth,  '52),  Elyria, 
Oct.    17,    1955. 

James  Walter  to  Robert  E.  Parry,  '55, 
and  Mrs.   Parry,  .Athens,  April   13. 

Robert  Baudinot  Scott  to  Robert  B. 
Cook,  '41.  and  Mrs.  Cook  (Kathalean 
Scott,   '40),    Portsmouth,   March   4. 


oDeatn^ 


.Arthur  H.  Carpenter,  '98,  retired 
metallurgist  who  gave  Ohio  University  its 
first  telescope  in  1935,  died  March  20  at 
his  home  in  Middleport.  Ohio.  .A  prominent 
scientist.  Mr.  Carpenter  was  associated  with 
metallurgy  in  the  early  1900's  as  an  .assayer. 
chemist,  prospector  and  executive.  He  later 


became  a  professor  of  metallurgy  at  the  .Ar- 
mour Institute  of  Technology,  and  a  lec- 
turer in  geology,  astronomy,  and  meteor- 
ology. It  was  there  that  he  manufactured 
the  telescope  which  was  used  at  the  1933 
World's  Fair  in  Chicago  and  later  donated 
to  Ohio  LIniversity.  He  was  also  well  known 
for  his  invention  of  a  process  of  covering 
pipe  with  lead,  and  was  a  member  of  num- 
erous scientific  organizations.  Surviving  are 
his  wife,  the  former  Lucile  Evans,  '02,  a  son, 
two  daughters,  three  grandchildren,  three 
brothers,  and  a  sister. 

Dr.  Joseph  A.  Guthrie,  '00,  director  of 
the  Guthrie  Hospital  in  Warren,  died  March 
5  of  a  heart  attack.  He  was  stricken  in  his 
apartment  at  the  hospital.  Dr.  Guthrie  grad- 
uated from  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  at  Baltimore  in  1903,  and  served 
as  the  first  president  of  the  State  Hospital 
Association  of  Ohio.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife  and  one  sister. 

Lola  M.  Clark,  '38,  a  teacher  at  Rose- 
ville,  Ohio,  for  the  past  27  years,  died 
March  3  of  an  asthmatic  attack.  Although 
she  had  been  in  poor  health  for  several 
months,  she  recently  resumed  her  teaching 
and  her  condition  was  not  considered  serious. 
At  the  time  of  her  attack  she  was  spending 
the  weekend  with  her  mother  in  Bremen, 
Ohio.  She  is  sui-vived  by  her  mother  and 
several  uncles  and  aunts. 

Dr.  Charles  M.  Coulter,  who  will  be 
remembered  by  many  alumni  as  pastor  of 
the  .Athens  First  Methodist  Church  from 
1926  to  1934.  died  April  6  at  his  home  in 
Toledo.  Surviving  are  his  wife,  two  daugh- 
ters, his  mother,  and  a  sister. 


M  .\  Y  .      19  5  6 


Page  thirty-one 


Kyitio      Uulleu    Shammer    ^neatre 

presents 

•  STALAG  17  June  28,  29,  30  July  1 

A  comedy  melodrama  by  Donald  Bevan  and  Edmund  Trzcinski  .  .  .  . 
A  group  of  American  prisoners  lodged  in  a  German  prison  camp,  trying 
to  escape   and  embarrassing   and   irritating  their  captors. 

•  THE  TENDER  TRAP  July  5,  6,  7,  8 

Sophisticated  comedy  by  Max  Shulmon  and  Robert  Smith,  about  a  New 
York  Bachelor  and  the  ladies  who  wont  to  do  everything  for  him. 

•  PICNIC  July  12,  13,  14,  15 

William  Inge's  prize-winning  ploy  about  a  young  vagrant's  influence  on  a 
group  of  women   in  a  small   Kansas  town. 

•  KING  OF  HEARTS  July  19,  20.  21,  22 

A  satiric  comedy  by  Jean  Kerr  and  Eleanor  Brooks,  about  a  cartoonist 
and   his   adopted   son. 

•  THE  TRAITOR  July  26,  27,  28,  29 

hHermon  Wouk's  exciting  spy  story  dealing  with  an  atomic  scientist  and 
communist  agents — full  of  dramatic  tension. 

•  THE  REMARKABLE  MR.  PENNYP ACKER         August  2,  3,  i  5 

Liam  O'Brien's  comedy  about  a  not-so-Victorian  father  ond  his  large 
family. 

Because  of  the  increased  popularity  of  Otiio  Valley  Surrmer  Theatre  productions,  an 
extra  performance  has  been  scheduled  for  each  play  of  tfie  1956  season.  Instead  of 
opening  on  Wednesday  nights  as  in  the  past,  the  plays  will  open  on  Thursdays,  with 
perfornnances  scheduled  for  Thursdays,  Fridays,  Saturday  ond  Sundays  at  8:00  p.m. 
and  Sunday  Matinees  at  2:30  p.m.  Ticket  information  co"  be  obtained  by  writing  to 
the   Ohio   Valley   Summer  Theatre,    Box  87,   Athens. 

Director — Christopher  Lane 

Designer — Cosmo  Catala^o 

Technical  Director — Andrew  Stasic 

GUEST  DIRECTOR 

KARL  SUTLER,  director  of  the  Booth  Tarkington  Ci\ic  Theatre, 

Indianapolis,  Indiana 

PRESENTED  IN  THE  AIR  CONDITIONED  UNIVERSITY  THEATRE